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README: a root entry point for a tree that had none
hyper-social had 7,572 lines of docs across 22 files, an excellent index at docs/README.md, and nothing at the root pointing at any of it. The docs are load-bearing -- SOCIAL-MODEL.md and ROOMS-ARE-THE-COMPUTER.md settle questions people otherwise re-derive -- so being unreachable from the front door was the whole defect. This is an orientation README, not a second index: what the tree is, the fracture principle, the fourteen projects grouped by role with MEASURED line counts, how to run one, and a pointer to docs/README.md as the authority. Two counts in the existing docs disagree with disk and are flagged rather than silently reconciled: docs/README.md says "15 standalone projects", docs/PROJECTS.md documents 12 (hyper-social-web and keet-social have no section), and there are 14 directories. PROJECTS.md's LOC estimates have drifted too -- hyper-social is listed at ~1500 and measures 2008. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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1# hyper-social
2
3A P2P social layer over Hypercore Protocol and Keet — a family of interoperable **standalone**
4projects (bridges, panels, daemons, interfaces) that together form a decentralized
5communication graph.
6
7### [Documentation index → `docs/README.md`](docs/README.md)
8
9Every design decision lives under [`docs/`](docs/) — 22 files, and they are the authority.
10Read [`docs/SOCIAL-MODEL.md`](docs/SOCIAL-MODEL.md) before designing anything social here:
11rooms are scope, audience and governance, and visibility is a place rather than a field.
12
13## The principle
14
15The communication graph **will fracture.** Any "universal bridge" eventually breaks into many
16bridges. That is designed for from day one: each piece is independently useful on its own, and
17the system is the emergent property of running them together. See
18[`docs/ARCHITECTURE.md`](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md).
19
20## The projects
21
22Fourteen directories, each a standalone npm package with `main: index.js` and an `npm test`
23(except `keet-social`, which is a GDScript addon). Line counts are measured, not estimated.
24
25**Bridges** — connect an outside platform to a Keet P2P room:
26
27| | LOC | |
28|---|---:|---|
29| `bridge-envelope` | 396 | the shared message envelope every bridge speaks |
30| `bridge-vault` | 372 | credential storage for the bridges |
31| `bridge-irc` | 973 | IRC |
32| `bridge-discord` | 864 | Discord |
33| `bridge-matrix` | 1200 | Matrix |
34| `bridge-mastodon` | 1032 | Mastodon |
35| `bridge-email` | 1132 | email |
36
37**Panels and daemons** — add a capability to a room:
38
39| | LOC | |
40|---|---:|---|
41| `hyper-wiki` | 688 | wiki panel |
42| `hyper-board` | 616 | kanban panel |
43| `hyper-feed` | 902 | feed panel |
44| `hyper-daemon` | 1735 | automation |
45
46**Interfaces:**
47
48| | LOC | |
49|---|---:|---|
50| `hyper-social` | 2008 | the meta-app tying the pieces together |
51| `hyper-social-web` | 3066 | browser interface (the only package with an `npm start`) |
52| `keet-social` | — | Godot 4 GDScript addon, talks to keet-daemon over HTTP JSON-RPC |
53
54⚠ [`docs/PROJECTS.md`](docs/PROJECTS.md) documents **12** of these — `hyper-social-web` and
55`keet-social` have no section there — and [`docs/README.md`](docs/README.md) says 15. Fourteen
56is what is on disk. Its per-project LOC estimates have also drifted (`hyper-social` is listed
57at ~1500 and measures 2008).
58
59## Run one
60
61```sh
62cd bridge-irc
63npm install
64npm test
65node index.js # each package is main: index.js
66```
67
68`hyper-social-web` additionally has `npm start`. There is no root `package.json` and no
69workspace tooling — the packages are deliberately independent, which is the fracture principle
70applied to the build as much as to the graph.
71
72## Related
73
74Outside this tree: [`favela-web`](../hyper-fleeky/favela-web) and
75[`hyper-proto-peer`](../hyper-fleeky/hyper-proto-peer) are the atproto-side surfaces;
76[`docs/FAVELA-PEER.md`](docs/FAVELA-PEER.md) scopes how they relate.
77
78## License
79
80Not yet declared.