A social network off the grid – mobile and available on Android

Manyverse is a social networking app with features you would expect: posts, likes, profiles, private messages, etc. But it’s not running in the cloud owned by a company, instead, your friends’ posts and all your social data live entirely in your phone. This way, even when you’re offline, you can scroll, read anything, and even write posts and like content! When your phone is back online, it syncs the latest updates directly with your friends’ phones, through a shared local Wi-Fi or on the internet.

We’re building this free and open source project as a community effort because we believe in non-commercial, neutral, and fair mobile communication for everyone.

( Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux)

  • Cooper8@feddit.onlineEnglish
    9·
    17 hours ago

    Sadly Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol is abandonment, as is it’s more scalable but far less tested successor PZP

    The p2p social approach seems so necessary, but projects that actually implement it are fraught with challenges it seems.

  • Joël de Bruijn@lemmy.ml
    26·
    22 hours ago

    Forgot this existed, tested it 5 years ago or so. Latest release is from 2019.

    AFAIK every message propagates through the entire network, not knowing its destination, but only the rigth recipient can decrypt it. As a consequence of the scuttlebutt protocol.

    That didnt seem scalable to me …

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      151·
      21 hours ago

      further more the opencollective project hasn’t seen an expense report for development since july of 2024 only domain renewals. so it’s not like they are working behind the scenes and just haven’t pushed anything to the gitlab (which also hasent seen any real development activity since july 2024)

      edit: I just saw this on their blog.

      Personally I will not do any more work on Manyverse. And my impression is no one else is planning to either. At most I might do a patch release (no features/big bug fixes) to wrap up a grant. The codebase could maybe keep living in a fork where the backend is swapped out with some other protocol, but this is a big project which would probably lose backwards compatibility with the current SSB main network, and I don’t think this is very likely to happen. Personally if I’d work on a P2P app now it’d probably be a (comparatively) “smaller” project, like a chat app or similar, using a newer protocol.

      so it sounds like the project is essentially dead

    • Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      22 hours ago

      Well. you can download the .apk file, this works. The app is still in beta, it works, but issues like this with the store may ocurre.

  • thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    22 hours ago

    How did you solve the problem that phone IP addresses are essentially all NATted? I was looking into this myself, but the fact that phones don’t have a public IP address stopped me.