It is time to create a decentralized public social network
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Re: It is time to create a decentralized public social network
#2So basically re-inventing microformats2 mark-up and webmention notifications: https://indieweb.org/
Re: It is time to create a decentralized public social network
#3The author should first discuss what is already out there and working very well. Start with Pleroma (Mastodon) and IndieWeb.
Re: It is time to create a decentralized public social network
#4The author should first discuss what is already out there and working very well. Start with Pleroma (Mastodon) and IndieWeb.
and RSS.
The only thing they seem to miss from the author's description is: "It has to be decentralized. The database would be hosted on many computers and each new entry would be processed using some sort of consensus algorithm."
But there's no motivation for why this is a expected property of the network
Re: It is time to create a decentralized public social network
#5Oh god, someone posts this sort of thing every couple months. Also tends to have high correlation with crypto-folk.
Decentralized social networks are a pipe dream. I'm sorry but no one wants to join you and your 50 shady hacker friends in a forum.
People want to go where their friends and family are. People's friends and families aren't going to figure out whatever stupid, inconsistent, under-designed UX people inevitably build for these sorts of things. The bar is extremely high.
Ideology seems to come before any practical notions of how people use products.
Re: It is time to create a decentralized public social network
#6There are only negative sides of decentralization for most of users. It's a very naive idea on its own.
Re: It is time to create a decentralized public social network
#7The author should first discuss what is already out there and working very well. Start with Pleroma (Mastodon) and IndieWeb.
Neither of those examples are working well - not even close.
They "work" in the sense that they have a checklist of features that I'm sure function as intended.
But the product/network as a whole is far from "working".
Re: It is time to create a decentralized public social network
#8Aren’t there already like 5 or 6?
Re: It is time to create a decentralized public social network
#9The author should first discuss what is already out there and working very well. Start with Pleroma (Mastodon) and IndieWeb.
Neither of those examples are working well - not even close. They "work" in the sense that they have a checklist of features that I'm sure function as intended. But the product/network as a whole is far from "working".
> But the product/network as a whole is far from "working".
In what way?
Re: It is time to create a decentralized public social network
#10The author should first discuss what is already out there and working very well. Start with Pleroma (Mastodon) and IndieWeb.
and RSS. The only thing they seem to miss from the author's description is: "It has to be decentralized. The database would be hosted on many computers and each new entry would be processed using some sort of consensus algorithm." But there's no motivation for why this is a expected property of the network
RSS came to my mind too. If everyone self-hosted something that gives an RSS feed, your social network feed could really just be an RSS reader.