Degen Messaging Protocol (DMP)

A public communication protocol for a degentralized censorship-resistant network with optional moderation enabled on a client or node side.

General schema

Version 0.1.0

{
    "version": <string>,
    "time": <string>,
    "action": <string>,
    "target": <string>,
    "text": <string>,
    "license": <string>,
}

Actions

An action can be:

• post to create a new post,

• reply to create a comment,

• react to create a reaction, e.g. upvote, downvote,

• edit to create a new version of an action/event, which can be optionally shown on a client alonside of instead of an original action/event,

• moderate to moderate an action/event, e.g. hide,

• share to boost/repost an action/event.

Examples of valid actions:

"action":"post"
"action":"reply"
"action":"react"
"action":"edit"
"action":"moderate"
"action":"share"

Targets

A target can be:

• an ID of an action/event (equals to its signature in DMP),

• any public key,

• a media file hash (torrent, IPFS),

• a URL,

• any other string.

Examples of valid targets:

// an id of an action/event (equals to its signature in DMP)
"target":"0xbd934a01dc3bd9bb183bda807d35e61accf7396c527b8a3d029c20c00b294cf029997be953772da32483b077eea856e6bafcae7a2aff95ae572af25dd3e204a71b"

// any public key
"target":"0xf8553015220a857eda377a1e903c9e5afb3ac2fa"

// a sentence
"target":"code is free speech"

// a word
"target":"ivermectin"

// a protocol version
"target":"dmp_v0.1.0"

Licenses

To avoid any potential legal responsibilities for distributing the copyright-protected content, the Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0) license should be added to each signed action/event by default. (Here is a license-related discussion regards to the Nostr protocol.)

Users might choose different licenses, and then the network participants can decide whether to accept or reject such actions/events.

Example:

"license":"SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0"