Bolixo

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Bolixo was created in 2018. It is a distributed social media. It is also free software.

The recent problems and abuses by social medias such as Cambridge Analytica was the incentive to create Bolixo. We also see here^[1] that most social medias evolve until they are sold and lose their original goals. Bolixo authors hope that by issuing a completely free software (GPLv3), it will not follow this path.

Project goals[]

• Respect privacy of users.^[2]
• Separation of duties to enhance security. The web interface does not talk to the database or filesystem directly. It uses micro-services, running in very small lxc containers, each with limited connectivity to the rest of the system.
• Digital signature for all messages and documents.
• Distributed network of Bolixo nodes, each hosting a few thousands users.
• Supports micro-blogging, private channels and document sharing.
• Provides a centralized directory where user may publish personal information (name, address, interest) so they can be found.

Functionalities and features[]

• Built on a versioning filesystem. All versions of a document are kept. Currently, only the bofs command line tool makes use of it.
• There is a command line tool (bofs) to perform almost everything done with the web interface such as post messages, upload documents, create and maintain groups, etc. It can be used to backup and restore content as well.
• Each user has a 2048 bits key used to sign messages and documents. It is also used to remote login into other bolixo nodes.
• The web interface uses tabs. It works also on mobile: it uses swipes to navigate between tabs.
• Each user may have a public page. It is disabled by default. One may create multiple versions of his public page and select the visible one. The public page contains messages sent to the public group of the user and various documents in the public project.
• WEB API to access most functionalities.

Technology[]

Bolixo is written in , a variant of C++. It is made of multiple services each running in micro containers. The web interface uses some JavaScript.

Bolixo runs on any Linux distribution (currently fedora (operating system)).

History[]

Bolixo was started in January 2018. It imported its technology from another project https://truelies.news. Both projects aimed at reducing the influence of fake news on social medias.

Bolixo was released in December 2018.

See also[]

• Distributed social network

External links[]

• Main project page: https://bolixo.org.
• Source code: https://solucorp.solutions/repos/solucorp/bolixo/trunk.
• Documentation: https://bolixo.org/bolixo.hc?webstep=5.

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