Hello and welcome to Bastyon! We're excited to have you here and hope this project will excite you as much as it excites us!
Bastyon is on a mission to democratize how people communicate. Today, most communication is centralized. It's not an overstatement to say that anyone can get unplugged from any platform for any reason, forcing them to lose their ability to communicate with loved ones, create content, or access their own data. Bastyon is changing this.
Vision: Bastyon aims to create a resilient, decentralized ecosystem that empowers individuals with unrestricted access to communication, information, and personal data management. Our vision is to build a platform that stands strong against censorship and ensures user sovereignty in the digital realm.
This repo is meant to be an entry point into the project. It has descriptions and overview of other repos and how they are all connected.
If you know what you want to help with, you could jump straight to the How To...? section.
Note: But before you jump in, please make sure you check out Contribution Guide.
[Coming Soon - Detailed architectural documentation and diagrams will be added here]
The application flow architecture largerly depends on the content, users are interacting with.
graph TB
subgraph Clients
BA["Browser Applications & Mobile"]
end
subgraph Proxy["Proxy Layer"]
TLS["TLS"]
Cache["Cache"]
Balance["Load Balancer"]
end
subgraph NodeCluster["Blockchain Nodes"]
N1["Node 1"]
N2["Node 2"]
N3["Node 3"]
end
subgraph PeerTube["Video Hosting via PeerTube"]
direction LR
PT1["PeerTube Instance 1"]
PT2["PeerTube Instance 2"]
PT3["PeerTube Instance 3"]
end
subgraph Chat["Bastyon Messenger"]
M["Matrix Server"]
end
%% Core infrastructure connections
BA --- Proxy
%% Single connection between Proxy and Nodes
Proxy --- NodeCluster
%% Blockchain node connections
N1 --- N2
N2 --- N3
N3 --- N1
%% PeerTube federation connections
PT1 --- PT2
PT2 --- PT3
PT3 --- PT1
%% Client connections to services
BA --- PT1
BA --- M
The Bastyon Platform consists of these main blocks:
- Roadmap
- Documentation
- Bastyon User Interfaces
- Bastyon Protocols, Network, and Node Software
- Bastyon Integrations
Below are the repositories for each respective platform component:
This.repo
An entry point that helps newcomers navigate the Bastyon project.
🛣️ Roadmap 🔗
This repo is used for submission, tracking, and discussion of new proposals. The conversations in this repo remain active until proposals either get approved (with a willing contributor) or rejected. In both cases, the natural end state for a proposal is to be archived with a decision note.
✍️ Documentation 🔗
This repo contains documentation files that power the Bastyon documentation site. They are expected to be evergreen and maintained by everyone, including developers who make observable changes that require documentation updates.
Bastyon Graphical User Interfaces include Mobile Apps, Desktop and Web Browser Apps across several repositories.
🛠️ Bastyon Application UI 🔗
The pocketnet.gui repo holds the codebase for end-user applications. You can make changes and build and run locally for Desktop, Browser app, and Mobile Apps.
🗨️ Bastyon Messenger UI 🔗
The messenger component of Bastyon, enabling secure, decentralized communication between users.
📞💻 Bastyon Calls UI 🔗
The video calling and conferencing interface, providing peer-to-peer communication capabilities.
🔄 Barteron GUI 🔗
This repo contains the User Interface for Barteron - a decentralized marketplace.
Back-End block (Node Software, Blockchain Explorer, Bastyon Platform API)
Core Protocol and Network Implementation
🎬 Bastyon Video Implementation 🔗
This repo is a fork of PeerTube, a free, decentralized and federated video platform developed as an alternative to other platforms that centralize our data and attention, such as YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo. 🎬
It contains the integration code with Bastyon and the PeerTube code itself.
If you'd like to contribute, please read our CONTRIBUTING.md
[Coming Soon - ]...