CTZN is a decentralized social network with a strong focus on building communities initally created by Paul Frazee, CTZN Extended is a new fork created by early CTZN user, Joe Harley, to teach himself about JavaScript and improve upon the original CTZN platform (think what C++ is to C!)

Standard CTZN Features

• Status feeds with 256 character limits but the ability to post "extended text" with no limit (shows on expand).
• Social following and moderated communities.
• Threaded comments.
• Decentralized hosting (anybody can create a server, and data syncs using the Hypercore Protocol).

Read the initial design document to learn more about the architecture.

• Incorporate private messaging features.
• Create built-in Fediverse bridging software.
• Allow further theme customisation.
• Add the ability for built SSH/Telnet text-mode viewing.
• Create groupware systems based on CTZN.

CTZN (and by extestion, CTZN Extended) is still in development! If you decide to run a server or build against the protocol, beware that breaking changes may occur and won't always be communicated ahead of time.

• Setup
  • How to set up a CTZN server
  • How to work on the CTZN codebase
• Architecture
  • Design overview
  • Roadmap
  • APIs
  • Database schemas overview
  • Database methods
  • Community roles system
  • Community permissions system

Standard CTZN's development has been live-streamed from day 1. You can watch the archives on YouTube.

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