Inspiration
The potential of decentralized networks to fight against information censorship, platform providers like Facebook or Twitter and Governments can ultimately decide about the contents exposed to each user. Most times such platform providers are prone to pressure by political or economical agents, and may be ideologically driven to hide messages or block certain users thereby impairing users’ ability to freely access rightful information.
What it does
Unstoppable News is a combination of Hacker News, Pocket and censorship resistance. With our dApp anyone can create a backup of an article or post just by passing a url, the content will be stored in IPFS using Web3.Storage, that way the information will be available forever. To submit a new article you should connect your Metamask wallet using Rinkeby network and have some RinkebyETH to pay for the transaction. The dApp is deployed on Fleek to be fully decentralized.
How we built it
In the backend we used ExpressJS to work with the JSON article parser, the list of articles is stored in a smartcontract on Rinkeby and for the frontend we used ReactJS with the Web3.Storage library to upload the files to IPFS.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Make a dApp that is fully decentralized and censorship resistant.
What we learned
- How IPFS works
What's next for Unstoppable News
Given the nature of this concept estuary.tech should be a better fit for the dApp
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