Breakaway communities (BACs) are an innovative concept that originated from the SPK Network, aiming to provide a seamless way for individuals and groups to create their own tokenized community social frontend platforms on the Hive blockchain. This technology essentially creates many sovereign online communities that run their own infrastructure and have their own economies. Soon, they will have their own token economies and governance systems, making them Digital Network States.
What are Breakaway Communities?
Breakaway communities, forked from the latest Ecency technology, offer a streamlined solution to quickly establish a personalized community frontend with a unique domain and customizable user interface. Utilizing open-source frontends like Ecency and Dbuzz (and it is hoped many other designs will integrate the technology), SPK Network developers have created a system that allows users to spin up their own frontends efficiently.
Key Features and Functionalities
Customization and Setup:
- Easy Deployment: By following the instructions on the breakaway.community website, setting up a BAC requires minimal coding experience. Tutorials and example videos are available to assist users through the process.
Additional features, such as colour scheme selection, trending feed customisation, and functionality, will be added over time. - UI Customization: Users can have their own domain URL and design their frontend according to their preferences.
- Easy Deployment: By following the instructions on the breakaway.community website, setting up a BAC requires minimal coding experience. Tutorials and example videos are available to assist users through the process.
Integration with Other Web3 Communities:
- Cross-Platform Compatibility: Breakaway communities facilitate the integration of other web3 communities into Hive, allowing them to have their own sites and reward systems where only their own community members can post to the site.
- NFT and Bitcoin Integration: An example of this is that users with Bitcoin ordinals will be able to create their own communities and log in using their NFTs and Bitcoin Wallets and exclusively post to their own dedicated community platform.
Types of Breakaway Communities:
- Community-specific: Focused on a particular Hive community.
- Author-specific: Dedicated to content from a specific author or authors (under development, to follow).
- Tag-specific: Centered around specific tags or topics (under development, to follow).
Point System and Tokens:
- Earning Points: Community members can earn points through various actions such as logging in, commenting, posting, reblogging, and upvoting content.
- Tokenization: The tokens will be general Proof of Brain (Incentivised stakeholder distribution) tokens; however, a portion of the inflation will go to social activity on the platforms as well as to community stake-weighted upvotes. Each week, your points will be tallied and compared with those of other users. A portion of the inflation from the community's token is distributed to users in the network based on this tally. Therefore, the users with the highest social activity on the BAC from that week will receive a larger proportion of the inflation than users with less social activity.
Advantages of Free, Open Source
Community-Funded Open Source Model: Breakaway communities operate as an open-source frontend, supported and funded by the community. This collaborative model ensures continuous development and innovation driven by the collective efforts of its users.
Seamless Integration with Ecency Updates: Breakaway communities benefit from the latest updates to the Ecency platform, a tokenized, open-source web3 platform funded by the Hive DAO. This means that any improvements or new features introduced to Ecency are automatically available to breakaway communities, ensuring they remain up-to-date with the latest technological advancements.
We are looking forward to offering users the ability to select other popular front-end platform designs as well as Ecency so that they can spin up their own more custom-made social platforms.
How to Create a Breakaway Community
To set up a breakaway community, you need:
- A Hive Community ID
- A domain
- A server
By running the instruction code provided on the https://breakaway.community/ website, you can quickly deploy your community frontend. The process is straightforward and does not require extensive coding knowledge.
If you're looking to establish a breakaway community, we invite you to join our Discord server and navigate to the #breakaway-community-set-up-help channel. Our team is eager to assist you with any questions and guide you through the entire process.
Example of Breakaway communities:
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https://hiverally.com/ |
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https://aliento.blog/ |
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https://spendhbd.com/ |
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https://rosarito.community/ |
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https://hivesnest.media/ |
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https://hivesucre.com/ |
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https://hivevibes.community/ |
Breakaway communities represent a cost-effective and user-friendly approach to establishing a Hive-based social media network social platforms for communities. With minimal effort, anyone can create a personalized frontend, engage their community, and reward members through a versatile point and token system. As we near the full completion of the integration of tokenization into these systems, the potential for them to enhance web3 integration and community engagement is immense.
Step-by-step tutorial to launch your own platform by @eddiespino:
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