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Nanogram – Private social media from your Raspberry Pi
9 points by smalltorch 18 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
Hello, I have made nanogram as a privacy centered social media platform designed for users to maintain complete control of their data.

Using purely open source alternatives, nanogram provides a robust and small way to emulate the old days of Instagram where friends could share moments with each other without all the fluff.

Also included is the ability to play Scrabble, connect 4, and chess with your friends.

The platform is invite only meaning the server operator must generate a invite token to allow new users.

Because of the global power of Tor, hosting is completely free and E2EE encrypted as it operates as a onion service.

Find it here https://gitlab.com/here_gorawhile/nanogram-pi



The TS made a typo, it's actually located here: https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/nanogram-pi


Curious why you chose invite-only access. Was the goal primarily spam prevention, community building, or reducing moderation requirements?


The invite only access puts the owness on the operator of the platform instance to be responsible for what's shared there.

It's designed for people that already know each other who need a private space, not a large platform for anybody.

There is also some built in protection for when someone new is invited to the server. Each member needs to allow that new member access. The idea is that I, the server operator may have welcomed someone to the community, but a server member may not feel the same way, so their content is not shared with that new member until they decide too.


That's an interesting model. It sounds closer to a private club than a traditional social network, where trust is negotiated by the community rather than just the administrator.

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