Welcome to Hex.Camp
Part of the "Local Wide Web" ... a place for websites that are built for your local community.
!!Under construction!!
What is it?
- a collection of ideas
- core idea: Hexagons!
- allow everybody to share information by placing things on a map
- uses Uber's H3 system for subdividing the world into hexagons
- any hexagon can contain a website or data
- hexagons can be "owned" by individual users or communities of users
- global hierarchy of communities
- swarms!!
- peer-to-peer collaborative hosting using WebRTC swarms
- no servers! hardly anything runs in the cloud. very cheap
- users can contribute hosting resources by running software on their machines at home
- web sites and data are syncable between neighbouring users in the swarm using technology from the IPFS project
- community-driven reputation and moderation system
- geographically localized user accounts using AT Protocol federation
- collaborative funding of infrastructure (most users pay nothing)
- web-based "community modules" provide interactivity
- open source
- users have choice
- run in a privacy "sandbox"
- can only communicate with neighbours in the "swarm"
- cannot communicate outside the sandbox (no advertising trackers)
- "fungible" infrastructure
- people participating in a community can provide needed infrastructure, eg. IPFS pinning, by running software on their computers at home without having to invest a lot of time doing system administration tasks
Potential uses
- geographically local information
- mapping
- archiving websites
- curating
- search engines
- local business
- community organizations
- artists
- gardening
- charities
- government / municipalities
Things to look at
Tools
- Encoded Hexagon ID Lookup Tool - use this tool to figure out where an "encoded hexagon ID" is on the map (eg. the ID for uxirkffr.hex.camp is "uxirkffr")