Subsocial Node for Substrate v1 by DappForce

⚠️ Note that Subsocial development has moved to a new repo: dappforce-subsocial-node and now it's based on Substrate v2. That's why we archieved this current repo where Subsocial is implemented on top of Substrate v1 (April 12, 2019).

What is Subsocial?

Subsocial is a set of Substrate pallets with web UI that allows anyone to launch their own decentralized censorship-resistant social network aka community. Every community can be a separate Substrate chain and connect with other communities via a Polkadot-based relay chain.

You can think of this as decentralized versions of Reddit, Stack Exchange or Medium, where subreddits or communities of Stack Exchange or blogs on Medium run on their own chain. At the same time, users of these decentralized communities should be able to share their reputation or transfer coins and other values from one community to another via Polkadot relay chain.

To learn more about Subsocial, please visit Subsocial Network.

Supported by Web3 Foundation

Subsocial is a recipient of the technical grant from Web3 Foundation. We have successfully delivered all three milestones described in Subsocial's grant application. Official announcement.

Building from source

Initial setup

If you want to build from source you will need the Rust toolchain, openssl and llvm/libclang.

git clone git@github.com:dappforce/dappforce-subsocial-node.git

Initialise the WASM build environment:

cd dappforce-subsocial-node/
./init-wasm.sh

Building

Clone the SubSocial runtime into the dappforce-subsocial-runtime directory:

git clone git@github.com:dappforce/dappforce-subsocial-runtime.git

Build the WASM runtime library:

./build-runtime.sh

Build the node (native code):

cargo build --release

Running a public node

Run the node and connect to the public testnet

cargo run --release

Installing a release build

This will install the executable subsocial-node to your ~/.cargo/bin folder, which you would normally have in your $PATH environment.

cargo install --path ./

Now you can run

subsocial-node

Building from Docker

Easiest start

To start Subsocial Full Node separately (you should have docker-compose):

cd docker/
docker-compose up -d

Start with your own parameters

docker run -p 9944:9944 dappforce/subsocial-node:latest ./subsocial-node [flags] [options]

• Don't forget --ws-external flag, if you want your node to be visible no only within the container.

Build your own image

If you want to build docker image from your local repository (it takes a while...), in your shell:

cd docker/
./build

Start all parts of Subsocial at once with Subsocial Starter.

Development

Running a local development node

cargo run --release -- --dev

Cleaning development chain data

When making changes to the runtime library remember to purge the chain after rebuilding the node to test the new runtime.

cargo run --release -- purge-chain --dev

License

Subsocial is GPL 3.0 licensed.