Mantle: A Novel DOSN Leveraging Free Storage and Local Software

摘要

We present Mantle, a novel framework for decentralized Online Social Networks (OSN). Mantle defines a privacy-preserving OSN kernel and can leverage any storage facilities for storing user data. Mantle is designed to execute all OSN specific logic on user devices. It supports the development of third-party applications and mediates all actions of the latter to protect user data, metadata and interactions. In this work, we focus on Mantle's interaction and notification mechanisms, which use publish/subscribe model.