Rotonde/client

Rotonde is a decentralized social network based on an equally decentralized application. The two parts of the application are as follows:

• The client, the core of the application.
• The portal, the user files, settings and customization.

The client, or Rotonde Core, is what contributors need to make improvements on the inner systems of the application. This separation allows for a simpler onboarding and updating flow, where the latest client revision will be seeded automatically (read-only), while the portal source is all that any normal user needs to maintain.

Getting Started

For New Users

• First make sure you've downloaded the latest version of the Beaker Browser
• Then open it up and visit https://client-neauoire.hashbase.io
• Here you can fill out your username and upload an avatar.
• Hit Enter, follow the Beaker prompt, and enjoy your new Portal!

You can follow new users by dropping their dat url in the "operator" input at the top of your new portal. For an example, try dat://daily-descent.hashbase.io/ to follow the daily-descent, a portal with regular news and updates about all-things P2P.

Improve Your Portal's Uptime with Hashbase.io

• Go to https://hashbase.io
• Create Account, then Upload Archive
• For the URL, enter the Dat url you created above
• For the Name, enter "rotonde"

This will give your portal a clean name, something like dat://rotonde-dcposch.hashbase.io

Hashbase will ensure that your portal stays available even when you're offline.

In case you're curious how these clean names work under the hood--they're references to opaque dat URLs. For example, Beaker resolves dat://daily-descent.hashbase.io/ by loading https://daily-descent.hashbase.io/.well-known/dat

For Developers

The goal of this tutorial is to have both a local client and portal.

• Clone both repositories in your ~/Sites
• Create two sites using the Beaker Browser and point them to the user/client repositories.
• Update the portal/index.html file with your client site hash, found in the Beaker address bar or the Share button.
• Update the client/dat.json with the client site hash, and the portal/dat.json with the portal hash.
• Enjoy!

Commands

• dat://000 will follow a portal.
• undat://000 will unfollow a portal.
• mirror dat://000 add a remote to your portal, read using rotonde on multiple machines
• unmirror dat://000 remove a remote from your portal
• filter word will show entries containing word.
• filter:neauoire will show entries by ~neauoire.
• clear_filter will clear the filtered feed.
• edit:name alice will change your display name to ~alice.
• edit:desc This is a brand new description will change your display description.
• edit:site dat://google.com will change your display site, it can be any protocole(http,https).
• edit:0 will edit your first entry.
• delete:0 will delete your first entry.
• quote:user_name-3 will quote another user's entry, where 3 is the entry ID 3.
• quote:user_name-3 Have a look at this! will quote another user's entry, and add the entry Have a look at this!.
• whisper:username Psst!
• ++ will show the next page of entries
• -- will show the previous page
• page:5 will jump to page 5

Formatting

Style your messages using the following syntax

• {*bold text*} bold text
• {_italics_} italics
• {-strikethrough text-} strikethrough text
• {#code#} code
• {descriptive links|https://github.com/Rotonde/rotonde-client} descriptive links

Runes

• @ means you seed each other.
• ~ means that they do not see you mention them.
• & means that the message is a whisper.
• $ means that they are a service or a bot.

Tabs

• Entries shows the combined feeds of all followed portals.
• Mentions shows entries that mention or quote you.
• Whispers shows your whispers.
• Portals shows a list of portals you follow.
• Networks shows portals that are followed by the portals you follow.

Icon

To change your display icon, update the SVG file located at media/content/icon.svg. The icon should be a square file for it to display properly. Keep it small. If you update your SVG manually, don't forget to go to Library -> (Your Rotonde Site) and press Review Changes -> Publish, otherwise your changes wont be seen by anyone!

Rich content

• TEXT >> MEDIA_NAME.jpg will connect a media filename from media/content/MEDIA_NAME.jpg.
• TEXT {%CUSTOM_EMOJI%} TEXT will inline an image file from media/content/inline/CUSTOM_EMOJI.png.
• supported media types are:
  image: gif, jpg, png, svg, webp
  video: ogv, webm, mp4
  audio: ogg, opus, mp3, m4a