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My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
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Re: My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
#22HTTPS + RSS + Webring/etc. Existing, well-defined protocols that are nimble and able to meet changing needs. I'm not sure why everyone wants to over-complicate this. If you want to make it easy enough to use for any mom and grandma, and you want any hope of gaining traction then you're going to need capital, which is going to necessitate a business. And perhaps it should require some effort, some learning, and some k…
By the same rationale, why do you need a "social network" at all? What is wrong with email?
Re: My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
#23HTTPS + RSS + Webring/etc. Existing, well-defined protocols that are nimble and able to meet changing needs. I'm not sure why everyone wants to over-complicate this. If you want to make it easy enough to use for any mom and grandma, and you want any hope of gaining traction then you're going to need capital, which is going to necessitate a business. And perhaps it should require some effort, some learning, and some k…
By the same rationale, why do you need a "social network" at all? What is wrong with email?
Email is a protocol for using the internet to transmit messages. Part of what I find interesting/valuable/different about "social networks" is that the content is & remains online. Email does not have this capability. Email is an exchange.
Re: My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
#24What I would prefer is a set of protocols that are interact in a well defined way with each others, like the Email or Usenet protocols, then you can write different clients for these and decentralisation is just a matter of running different servers clients that don't necessarily interact with each other. Something like the CapeProto RPC framework makes it relatively easy to declare the interface of a service.
I'm curious if Skynet or something similar could be used for that? I don't pretend to understand any of the modern blockchain frameworks, but a peer-to-peer distributed and encrypted system seems to fit the bill (possibly non-blockchain related, I'm not sure). It was trending yesterday:
Re: My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
#25Essentially people want a free social network that doesn't use its users data for mining and advertising, doesn't track user data, doesn't archive their messages if they delete them/their account/they die, and free from moderation. Is that really too much to ask for? The answer is yes - yes it is too much to ask for - you don't get a free service without paying for it in some other way - mostly these days through the…
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Re: My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
#26How about a timeline on peoples personal blog that follows other blogs (like the fb timeline)? This way, you write your own content on your own website, you read other peoples content on your own website in a consistent format. You tweet on your own website, and others who want to follow can follow from their own website.
Re: My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
#27Scuttlebutt protocol is a decentralized encrypted protocol where data-at-rest is encrypted by keys not on the chat server.
Chat server can be scaled to many via docker.
An average end-user can fire up such a chat server to cover his own group chat.
Manyverse (Sweden) is that mobile app.
I’ve toyed with it. Looks interesting.
Very much like Gnutella except there are no seed servers, Manyverse instead uses cipher-link hash tags as a joining mechanism which often requires a posting at external websites to get started.
Disclaimer: just a hobbyist, not a contributor to Manyverse nor Scuttlebutt.
Re: My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
#28I'd like to see a social network that tries to minimize the impact of "whale" nodes. I can go to twitter if I want to see what's on the mind of the world's top influencers. I can go to facebook if I want to see people mass-sharing news articles with 10,000 toxic comments about the latest political events. Where's the social network built around connecting you to your network and only your network?
This would likely alleviate the moderation issue too. You aren't going to see filth and extremism unless it's posted by your social network, which decreases the incentive for bad actors to post it in the first place.
Re: My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
#29How about a timeline on peoples personal blog that follows other blogs (like the fb timeline)? This way, you write your own content on your own website, you read other peoples content on your own website in a consistent format. You tweet on your own website, and others who want to follow can follow from their own website.
Isn't that "trackback"? As popular in the first wave of '00s blogging.
Re: My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
#30I'd like to see a social network that tries to minimize the impact of "whale" nodes. I can go to twitter if I want to see what's on the mind of the world's top influencers. I can go to facebook if I want to see people mass-sharing news articles with 10,000 toxic comments about the latest political events. Where's the social network built around connecting you to your network and only your network ? This would likely…
don't you setup you're own network in both FB and Twitter? i choose who my friends are in FB (I'm not on twitter)