We just shipped v0.3 — real-time sync across peers is working. No relay server needed.
Knot is a community platform where your data, your members, and your content live on the peers themselves — not on our servers. If we disappear tomorrow, your community keeps running.
We just shipped v0.3 — real-time sync across peers is working. No relay server needed.
This is wild. My community ran for 3 days with zero central infrastructure. Even Tor exit nodes were seeding.
Spaces, posts, member discovery, content feeds. Built on Hypercore, powered by peers. No monthly server bill.
Data lives in Hypercores distributed across your members' devices. Add a peer, the network gets stronger. No AWS bills, no single point of failure.
Messages, files, member data — all encrypted between peers. Not even the runtime can read your community's content.
Cryptographic key pairs, not email/password. Your members can't be doxxed, platform-banned, or held hostage by a company that changes its mind.
Data syncs across peers as it changes. No polling, no refresh, no WebSocket servers. The network handles it.
No central authority means nothing to takedown. Your community exists as long as at least one peer is running.
The same open-source stack behind Keet and PearPass. 626+ modules, maintained by Holepunch, backed by Tether.
Circle can ban your community. Mighty Networks can change their pricing. Discord can suspend your server. They own the servers, they own your data, they own your audience. You are a tenant, not an owner.
Your members join with cryptographic key pairs. Your posts live in Hypercores replicated across every online peer. Your content cannot be deleted by a corporation, a government, or a platform that woke up and changed its terms of service.
Built exclusively on Holepunch components. No cloud providers. No proprietary backend.
New members are discovered via the DHT network. Peers register their public key and the topics they host — no server needed to know who's where.
Community data — spaces, posts, member profiles — lives in append-only logs replicated across all online peers. No single storage server.
Peers negotiate direct connections through NATs and firewalls using Holepunch's distributed holepunching. The relay is just a fallback — most connections are peer-to-peer.
As long as one peer in the community remains online and seeding, the community persists. The network cannot be turned off by any single entity.
We got sidetracked by servers, data centers, and companies that act like they own the pipes. Knot is a return to the original design — where communities own their infrastructure and the network belongs to the people using it.
Be among the first to run a community that can't be silenced.