01 / IDENTITY
You are not a database row.
Your Synapsis identity is anchored by a decentralized identifier and your signing keys. It can be exported, carried, and verified across the network.
A new social layer is propagating
There’s a
swarm coming.
A social network that belongs to the people running it. Sovereign identity, portable media, encrypted conversations, and independent nodes moving as one.
01 Open source
02 Federated by design
03 Identity you control
The network, reconfigured
Not another platform.
A shared signal layer.
Synapsis replaces the single social silo with a swarm of independent communities. Each node sets its own culture and rules. The network carries identity, discovery, and signed interactions between them.
You can join a node or operate your own. Either way, you aren’t renting a corner of somebody else’s audience. Your identity is based on cryptographic keys, your media stays portable through Stuffbox, and your connections reach beyond one server.
YOU
Sovereign DID
YOUR NODE / 01Your community
NODE / 07Independent
NODE / 12Independent
YOU → COMMUNITY NODE
COMMUNITY → SWARM MESH
COMMUNITY → SWARM MESH
Built differently at the root
Social, without surrender.
02 / STORAGE
Your media. Your address.
Synapsis uses Stuffbox as its portable media layer. Your photos and files live separately from your social node, keeping the same durable URLs when you move between nodes.
03 / CONVERSATIONS
Private means encrypted.
One-to-one text messages use client-side end-to-end encryption, with a separate recovery PIN for bringing your identity to a new device.
04 / FEDERATION
Independent. Not isolated.
Nodes discover one another through the Swarm. Follows, reactions, reposts, and profiles cross boundaries as signed, verifiable interactions.
05 / COMMUNITY
Your node, your rules.
Operators control their node’s identity, moderation, registrations, and culture—without cutting their members off from the wider network.
The difference
The swarm has no center to capture.
The old platform
The Synapsis network
One company owns the graphIndependent nodes share the graph
Your account is permissionYour identity is cryptographic
Media locked to the platformPortable media through Stuffbox
Rules imposed from the centerCommunities govern locally
A closed productApache-2.0 open source
For node operators
Bring a VPS.
Leave with a network.
Synapsis runs as a native Node.js service with an embedded database. No Docker. No separate database server. Automatic updates keep every node moving with the network.
LINUX + SYSTEMDNODE.JS 20+NGINX / CADDY
Read the source
AGENT PROMPT / VPS INSTALL
Deploy a production Synapsis node on this server.
Domain: [YOUR DOMAIN]
Admin email(s): [YOUR EMAIL]
Use the official source repository:
https://githop.xyz/GnosysLabs/Synapsis
Read README.md and deploy/ first, then use the project’s supported production installation path.
Configure Synapsis for the provided domain with HTTPS behind the existing reverse proxy, secure generated secrets, the embedded database, Stuffbox media, its systemd service, and automatic updates. Preserve existing services and data, and detect conflicts before modifying them.
Complete and troubleshoot the deployment until it is healthy. Verify the systemd service, public HTTPS site, /api/version, and update timer. Then report the live URL, important configuration/data/backup paths, services changed, and secrets the operator must retain.
Ask only when a required value cannot be inferred or a choice could risk existing services or data.The signal is already moving
Don’t wait for the future
of social to be handed to you.
Join a node. Start a node. Bring your identity.