Pubky Core Overview
Pubky Core is built on a few core concepts:
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Homeserver - Decentralized data storage nodes that host user data. Data is encrypted at rest.
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PKARR - Self-issued public keys that function as sovereign, publicly addressable domains are used to resolve the previous components.
Pubky Core’s distributed architecture aims to provide user autonomy through credible exit between interchangeable components.
- Pubky App Architectures can be very diverse. From simple web client applications that connect to a single homeserver for data storage and retrieval to complex backends that do aggregation and powerful inference over many homeservers creating abstractions such as social media with semantic social graph.
Target Users
Pubky Core is made for developers and builders of internet software products. We will actively work to cultivate a community of builders and startups using our tech.
Pubky App is made for anyone interested in social media and online publishing that wants new ways to control their data and more control over which posts they see.
Why? What is the reward?
The reward for everyone is a more open, privacy-focused, usable, modular and secure web. The reward for Synonym as lead of this project is to be positioned to disrupt Big Tech as an industry, gain user recognition and hopefully reputation through the effort of building a decentralized ecosystem. The ultimate potential is for Synonym to become a major player in online publishing & social media, while also monetizing in ways similar to Google (e.g., search and aggregation over the web → search / aggregation and tools for sovereign data stores), as well as opportunities to introduce new users to our ecosystem of products and services (e.g., bitcoin payments infrastructure)