How It Works - Holos
holos.social
Your phone becomes your social server

https://holos.social/

A Mobile-First Federated Social Network

Connect to the fediverse through a relay server designed specifically for mobile devices. Join a decentralized network where you control your data, your privacy, and your social experience.

Unlike traditional social networks where your data lives on remote servers, Holos runs a complete ActivityPub server directly on your smartphone. Your posts, followers, and cryptographic keys stay on your device, giving you control and the ability to migrate between relays.

  • Die4EverOPAEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    This sounds like it would be pretty niche. But that’s the beauty of the Fediverse, the users of the niche platforms can still hang out with all the people on the conveniently hosted platforms.

    They have an announcements feed here: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial

  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    I think on device hosting is a great idea, and the fediverse, with its content redundancy, is well suited to it. If the entire economy adopted this model, it would remove the need for data centers and all the associated problems we are seeing right now.

  • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    This feels like halfway between lemmy and nostr. I wonder about the utility of it tho? federated content gets duplicated everywhere and is unencrypted by nature (except for DMs on some platforms) so aside from proof of authenticity/ownership I don’t see what this approach gets you?

  • Leraje@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I’m confused - the relay server is hosted on a mobile phone? All I can see are instructions for using a docker file to install caddy, nginx etc…?