A decentralised video sharing social platform built on Lens Protocol. With LensTok, users can share and discover short videos through live streaming, uploads, and social shares. (TL:DR a decentralised TikTok)

Live Demo: LensTok Testnet

For the best experience view on web (although mobile works too just not as much, autoplay not compatible on iOS, although android should be fine.)

LensTok is a platform that allows users to share videos with the Lens community and more. You do not need to be logged in to view and enjoy the videos. But once logged in with Lens you can post and share short videos and interact with other users videos.

LensTok offers a variety of features, including the ability to upload videos via bundlr & arweave, live streaming with Livepeer, and the option to interact with other users through comments, likes, and collects all through Lens protocol. Users can also search for and follow other profiles, and view their followers and videos.

• Overview
• Features Summary
• Stack
• Demo Images
• Setup
• Conclusion
• Credits

A video sharing social media platform is a fun way for people to show each other what they are doing, or to share things they find funny or interesting. Other people can watch the videos and leave comments, or "like" them if they enjoy them creating social interactions and community.

We set out to build a social media that cares more about the user, that won’t harvest user data (looking at you Tiktok!) and gives the content creator control over their own content.

For full transparency we started to build LensTok as part of the Encode/WBW3 accelerator, the Next Build Hackathon began a week or so into it and we were encouraged to enter, and so have been building for both alongside each other. We have added new features since it finished in mid December. LensTok is also taking part in Buildspace N&W S2.

• Social sharing: LensTok includes a variety of social sharing features, these come from using Lens social graph, and include the ability to comment, like, and collect videos.

• Follow and search profiles: Users can search for and follow other profiles on the platform, and view their followers and videos. There is a mobile discover page.

• Lens Collect module: LensTok includes a collect module, where users can set conditions on who can collect their video

• Upload on Bundlr/Arweave: In addition to live streaming, users can also upload their videos to the platform for others to discover.

• Mobile: LensTok is mobile friendly, making it accessible to a wide range of users.

• Encrypted Commenting with Lit: Just push a toggle to encrypt your comment to keep it secret to all except the user that posted the video.

• Live streaming with Livepeer: LensTok allows users to share their videos in real-time with the community through live streaming.

• Nextjs
• Tailwind CSS
• Lens Protocol
• Polygon Mumbai
• Bundlr
• Arweave
• Lit Protocol
• Livepeer

Here are some images of LensTok in action:

Web

1. Landing page, you will land on the for you page where you will find a timeline of videos to scroll through. Want a different view? there is a second timeline of the 'Latest' video posts also available and some suggested accounts to look at.

2. The best way to experience LensTok is to connect your wallet and login with Lens.

3. If you need a testnet Lens handle, we gotchu, you’ll find the link to easily mint one at the bottom of the sidebar. It takes you to Lens-do-it, created by our dev @paolo to easily mint a testnet handle.

4. Social sharing: now you can interact and Follow(or unfollow), Like, Comment, Collect, Upload, using these buttons. You can also now see who you follow, click on their profile, see what they're up to

5. Clicking upload will bring you here: Select the file you want to upload, choose a title and description. you can also choose to use the Lens collect module here to put a condition on your video collects. Choose to allow anyone or only followers and set a price or leave it free.

5.5) Uploading: budlr is a bit funny. You need to hvae a storage balance with them in order to upload. So the first time you will have zero and will need to depoist (not much, and its mumbai not real Matic). PRess the black depoist button, enter the amount you want, click the second deposit button and then wait for it to refresh. We show you an estimate of how much it'll cost to upload the video so you know how much to top up.

6. Click on your profile image on the top right of the web app or on any users profile will bring you here, to their (or your) profile page where you will see all of your videos. Click one to like, comment and see more detail.

7. Commenting: Click on a video or the comment button to get to this page where you can leave a comment. Toggle to encrypt it (using LIT protocol) so only the creator can see it.

8. Search: sort of self explanatory, start typing the name or handle of a user into the search bar, and some profiles will come up, click through to see their profile

9. Live Streaming: Watch livestreams (if there are any happening at that moment) or share your own. nb: currently Livepeer require you to have OBS installed to stream. You also must be logged into with Lens. Toggle to 'Watch Live' or 'Go Live'

Mobile

10. Landing: Mobile landing page also has two timelines to scroll, click the house icon to toggle between them. You can like, collect, follow etc from the timeline. NB: videos do not autoplay on iphone.

11. Comments: click the comment button below the video to go through to see more video details and to see and leave a comment.

12. Discover page: The bottom scroll bar has timeline, upload, disover and profile links. This is the discover page. See other users, search categories or profiles.

cd lenstok
npm install
# generate lens types
npm run codegen
# create your env variables
cp .env.example .env
# Copy your Infura Api key in the .env file
# NEXT_PUBLIC_INFURA_ID=<yourInfuraKeyHere>
npm run dev

Our aim when building Lenstok was to try and make a contribution to a more decentralised social media, where users don’t have to worry about their data, and where they have full control over their content.

LensTok is built on chain and so is by nature decentralised, it uses decentralised protocols such as Lens and Livepeer. This means greater privacy and security for users, as their data is not stored on a central server that could be vulnerable to hacking or other security threats.

In addition to the core social features, LensTok also includes the Lens collect module. This feature allows users to take more control over their content. Comments, encrypted with Lit Protocol give further user control on both the creator and user side.

LensTok was created by @N44TS, @driespindola, @PaoloCalzone