Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
A decentralized, uncensorable Twitter-clone built on Ethereum.
Check out the deployed Heroku-version of this app at tweether.io (the initial page load might be slow since it's hosted on a free tier)
Running locally
First, make sure that you have Node and Truffle installed on your computer.
Clone the repo, then run the following commands in the folder:
npm installnpm run devUsage
All the data is stored on the Ethereum blockchain, which means that signing up and posting tweets costs a small amount of ether. This is probably not something that people would be willing to pay for in the near future, but serves as a proof-of-concept.
Learn how to create DApps like this
Check out my online course Discover Ethereum & Solidity on Ludu to learn how to build Tweether from scratch, as well as how to build complete Dapps with Solidity, Truffle and modern frontend frameworks like Next.js.