Smartlike builds a free non-profit decentralized donation processor with a focus on freedom, privacy and efficiency:
- users choose moderation policies, creators and publishers get more visibility and independence from middlemen
- no registration, no private data collection
- zero commission, high bandwidth
Our mission is to help decentralize the Internet, develop common good technologies for people and businesses to thrive in direct cooperation.
The service employs a hybrid from trusted relationships between creators and their audience for private and secure end-to-end payments and trust-less horizontally scalable public ledger technology for transaction processing without cryptocurrency.
- an alternative to ad-sponsored content distribution
- blockchain but no middlemen miners or volatility for speculation
- eventually got rid of blocks and moved to a validating DHT for storage
- experimented with one of the most promising DHT implementations - Holochain
- all advertized features with decentralized privacy, financial security high bandwidth and zero commission
- but: since there was still no fitting production grade DHT around, a centralized but scalable and proven Kafka-Cassandra cluster was used to serve as a temporary solution that transparently stores all signed transactions on BitTorrent
- switch to a DHT network
- hand over the control to a meritocratic community governance (users who benefit most should drive the system)
- a zero exit is targeted to cover development costs by donations
Smartlike is an open source project. We welcome all sorts of participation. Let's discuss on our forum
Please consider donating via smartlike to get the ball rolling:
- the donation is immediately used for development
- the same amount is credited to your Smartlike account to be used for micro-donations
- the amount is also charged to our Smartlike account which produces a negative balance
- the negative balance will be removed from future micro-donations to Smartlike development
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.