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# About Socialbox
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This project is the Socialbox standard documentation, this project is intended to describe the standard for which
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Socialbox servers and clients would use to communicate over the internet.
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## What's Socialbox?
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Socialbox is a decentralized platform for hosting social media instances, enabling users to register/authenticate on
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various instances and communicate with other users or communities across different instances without relying on a
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centralized server. This model aims to replace traditional services like Email, Reddit, and Twitter, allowing users
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to create communities for private, internal, or public purposes and engage in peer-to-peer communication, even if
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they are on different servers.
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## Why use Socialbox?
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Email has been around for a long time, but it only allows us to send messages to each other but it's still great,
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because it allows Alice from example.com to send an email to John at foobar.com even if both users are on different
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servers with possibility of different features, but the underlying protocol still works to allow two users from
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different servers to communicate with each other.
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But take Twitter or Reddit for example, users are constrained to creating their accounts or boards on that one and only
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platform, if Reddit or anyone on that platform doesn't like that board, they could very well take it down and make it
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inaccessible to many users. Even worse if Reddit goes down entirely! Socialbox aims to fix this to allow users to
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explore the internet as it once was without being tied to a centralized service, so for example john@foobar.com may be
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able to post on cats@lol.com and interact with other users that doesn't necessarily come from lol.com or foobar.com.
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john@foobar.com may also subscribe to these channels and or boards and receive daily updates from their favorite
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sources and communities.
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## Wouldn't i need to create a lot of accounts?
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No! The idea is that one use may register for john@foobar.com but with that sole account john may access other
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Socialbox instances and interact on them without ever telling lol.com or any other foreign instance what John's
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password is. For example, if john@foobar.com authenticates to lol.com, it's up to lol.com to verify if john is actually
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john from foobar.com by talking to foobar.com directly, this way lol.com can verify that john from foobar.com is
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actually john.
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