How Tent Works
Tent servers maintain relationships between users and manage apps. Users create and view content on apps. When a users creates new content, their Tent server sends it to the followers they chose. It also listens for and stores new messages and content from the people and organizations that user follows. Every user on Tent also has a profile that stores basic information about the user. Tent also lets users control which apps can access their data and what can be done with it.
Decentralized
Email, the World Wide Web and the Internet itself are decentralized.
Centralized services cannot meet the needs of all users because they limit developers and use closed and proprietary APIs. Users are forced to use multiple service providers and fragment their relationships, messages, memories, and data. Users have to check in regularly with multiple sites and apps just to see what is happening in their lives.
Apps
Anyone can write any kind of Tent app. The only person’s permission a developer needs is the user’s. Users use the apps they want and keep all their posts, relationships, and messages in one place.
Tent is built for the future. Developers can create new kinds of posts and profile info to support new kinds of interaction and media, like streaming video, email, maps, and holograms.
Lifecycle of a post
- Alice goes to a restaurant.
- Alice writes a short message on TentStatus
- TentStatus sends the message to Alice’s server
- Alice’s server sends the status to two friends (Bob’s and Carol’s) servers.
- Bob’s server sends the message to Bob’s TentStatus
- Carol’s server sends the message to Carol’s TentStatus
- Bob and Carol each read the post.
All this happens in just a few seconds and is completely decentralized.