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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?
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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.
The author should first discuss what is already out there and working very well. Start with Pleroma (Mastodon) and IndieWeb.
The 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".
Oh 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 inevi…
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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".
Maybe, but the article needs to talk about that. That is my point. From my own view, I'm using both of those things and it does work, so why would I entertain a slough of new ideas to be started from scratch without seeing a compare and contrast discussion?
The author should first discuss what is already out there and working very well. Start with Pleroma (Mastodon) and IndieWeb.
Masoton doesn't encode useful information in the URL like the author described in the first section.
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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.
RSS is a good example. In the simplest form my proposed social network structure could be seen as RSS feed of all the social web that is stored in a decentralized database. The main feature is that the posts can be 'liked' or 'upvoted' by users (domains).