CitizenX is a pioneering Chrome extension for decentralized web annotation, leveraging IPFS for distributed storage and OrbitDB for collaborative tools. Built with React and TypeScript, it ensures a seamless user experience while maintaining a serverless architecture. Annotations, comments, and user identities are stored on IPFS, ensuring data persistence without centralized servers. Developers and tech enthusiasts can explore the project on GitHub at https://github.com/Waltika/CitizenX, where they can build and deploy it in Chrome’s developer mode ahead of its Chrome Web Store release. This post dives into the tech stack, decentralized design, and future roadmap, offering insights for those interested in decentralized applications (dApps), peer-to-peer collaboration, and distributed systems. Join us in revolutionizing web annotation with a privacy-first, community-driven approach.

Discover CitizenX, a decentralized Chrome extension that transforms web annotation, bringing community notes to the internet for better sense-making. Annotate any webpage, share insights, and engage with a global community through threaded comments—all without a centralized server. With decentralized data storage and identities via IPFS, your contributions and profile remain secure and portable across devices. Whether you’re a researcher, student, or curious reader, CitizenX empowers you to add a knowledge layer to the web, track visited pages, and receive notifications for new annotations or comments on your contributions. We’re building the future of collaborative web annotation and invite you to join us! Stay updated on our first release by contacting us to join our mailing list. Let’s make the internet a richer, more connected space for collective understanding and discovery with CitizenX.

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