Social network users who are concerned about privacy and censorship want to run their own decentralized instances, yielding full control over own data. buddycloud-server is a building block for a bright future: it exposes your data to the network, featuring access control and real-time update notification.
The primary network protocol is buddycloud channels.
buddycloud-server is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. See the
LICENSE file.
At this early stage you should be prepared to upgrade this software in the future.
Instructions are located at https://buddycloud.org/wiki/Install
The most important concept with Node is asynchronous event handlers. We try to flatten the code flow by using the Step library. Pay attention to always call a callback in success as well as error cases. Lost control flows may result in hanging requests and unfinished database transactions.
Top priority
Future
Sporting real transactions and a normalized database schema, this SQL backend is expected to yield high performance.
grep TODO *.js- More configurability (channel presets)
- Topic channels
- More backends (MySQL? SQLite?)
- Further frontends: Web, oStatus