Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network
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#2Biggest instance only has 723 users. What went wrong with it? Because it looks rather nice.
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#3I did try to mention this before, with creating a Slack clone [0]. PHP and MySQL which is what this is written in are not very sexy but they're perfect for when you want the entire world to be able to use it.
There's reasons why PHP has been so successful with WordPress and Facebook.
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#4Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our own bullshit that we fail to realize that the average Facebook user has no idea what "decentralized" means; nor cares that their personal data is being sold.
This is another example of faux outrage that will pass with the next news cycle.
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#5They promise privacy, but in a decentralized system, do I have to trust every node admin?
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#6Not sure what decentralised means. Do the different hosted versions communicate together and sync users and data across each other? (like the blockchain etc. Because that would be fairly important).. Also a real sneaky pro move would be initially to allow people to "sign up" via Facebook :) - once they're registered and the network has their email address then Facebook can become useless, just lowers the barrier to entry and its ironic that Facebook can be used to replace itself.
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#7Not sure what decentralised means. Do the different hosted versions communicate together and sync users and data across each other? (like the blockchain etc. Because that would be fairly important).. Also a real sneaky pro move would be initially to allow people to "sign up" via Facebook :) - once they're registered and the network has their email address then Facebook can become useless, just lowers the barrier to e…
Friendica is part of the fediverse, that is, "federated universe." The model of decentralization is "federation" here. Friendica is interoperable with Mastodon, GNU social, etc.
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#8Just thinking, who should provide this decentralized service for common users? Someone who already provide them email? Their internet providers? Family?
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#9Not sure what decentralised means. Do the different hosted versions communicate together and sync users and data across each other? (like the blockchain etc. Because that would be fairly important).. Also a real sneaky pro move would be initially to allow people to "sign up" via Facebook :) - once they're registered and the network has their email address then Facebook can become useless, just lowers the barrier to e…
Looks like Friendica (along with most of these other "decentralized social media" things) is federated, not distributed in the way that Bitcoin is. They work kind of like email: each person picks one service to use, but users can follow each other across services.
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#10There will be no company to be outraged at, when all of your data is siphoned... progress!