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### How does Tent work?
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Check out this page for a full description
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### What does Tent do?
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When you create new content, Tent sends it to the followers you choose. It also
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When you create new content, Tent sends it to the followers you choose. It also
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title: Introducing Tent
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kind: article
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created_at: August 22, 2012 14:05 EDT
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Tent is a new protocol for open, distributed social networking.
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What we believe -- [The Tent Manifesto](/blog/the-tent-manifesto)
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### What makes Tent different?
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Tent is decentralized, not federated or centralized. Any Tent server can connect
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to any other Tent server. All features are available to any server as
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first-class citizens. Anyone can host their own tent server. Tent servers can
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also be run as Tor hidden services to create a social darknet for at-risk
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organizers and activists. Anyone can write applications that connect to Tent in
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order to display or create user content.
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Relationships are between users, independent of their service providers, so
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users take their data and relationships with them when they change Tent service
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providers. Every user decide which other users can follow them and what
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information will be shared with each of their followers.
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### You are your memories and relationships
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We use social networks to advertise our identities, communicate with friends,
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families, co-workers, customers, and brands. The content we create in the form
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of messages, uploaded media, and social graphs is not only valuable, it has come
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to define each of us. This information, our relationships and our data needs to
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be under our own control. When a user leaves a social service provider for any
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reason, that user should be able to take their relationships, not just a copy of
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their data, with them. Tent lets them.
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### Planning for the Future
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Tent supports extensible formats for post types and profile information. As
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developers' needs change they are free to create new open formats for data
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exchange. Tent is built on HTTPS, JSON and OAuth, each of which handles hundreds
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of millions of transactions online each day. We designed Tent to grow and adapt
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with its users.
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### The Tent Ecosystem
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Tent not specifying the economics of an ecosystem. There will be many options
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for users, from free to paid to self hosted, from ad supported to
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advertising-free, with providers that serve different market segments and
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types of users. Since anyone can set up a Tent server or become a service
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provider, niche needs should quickly be met, based on demand.
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There are many spectrums of need:
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technically experienced - inexperienced<br>
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rich - poor<br>
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ad tolerant - ad intolerant<br>
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verified - pseudonyms<br>
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public - private<br>
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centralized - distributed<br>
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## Next steps
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The first Tent server implementation will be available as an open source
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repository very soon. A hosted version for users unwilling or unable to host
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their own will follow quickly.
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In the meantime, we encourage anyone developing apps or services supporting Tent
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to add your services to the list in the GitHub repository via pull request. The
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same goes for post-types and profile info-types: a community site will launch
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soon, for now, use pull requests or reach out directly: info@tent.io
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More coming soon about the future of Tent.
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