Nobody is one-dimensional, why should we only have one social media feed? On socialli we can have multiple "lists", a feed for our different interests. We might like a person's art, but not their politics, then just follow their "art list". :)

Socialli is an opensource decentralized social media app built with Blockstack.

Your data is your own. Private data, like the "lists" you follow are only accessible by you. Thus, can't be exploited.

You are not stuck with socialli.st. If you want to host or join an instance of Socialli exclusively for your family, friends, or community, you can do so. As a host, you can choose to make it public or private where only people you add as members can access.

As a user, you don't need to make multiple accounts, you only need your Blockstack account to access different socialli instances.

• Make sure node is available. (Using yarn as the package manager)
• Need a Blockstack account

In the src directory, edit socialli_config.js

const config = {
	host: "your.id.blockstack",
	instance_name: "Socialli or any other name",
	instance_description: "Socialli.st is a socialli instance for everyone. (or something else)"
}

Install dependencies:

yarn install

In the server directory, create a .env file with the content:

MONGO_DB_URL="mongodbUrl"

cd into the server directory and install dependencies:

cd server
yarn install

Start react app:

//in root directory
yarn start

Available at http://127.0.0.1:3000/ by default. You can change this to localhost in the .env.development file

Start server:

//in server directory
node index.js

Then start making your changes :)