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Mmmm, I've seen dozens of decentralized social networks come and go. Hope this one makes it.

• mbreese 11y ago
  If anything will take hold, my money is on a social network protocol, with the possibility for multiple implementations rather than a distributed application. Until I see an RFC, I'm not optimistic.
  • atrudeau 11y ago
    Well, xmpp was fully specified and it went the way of the dog, and did a fraction of what a full social network does. But I like the idea. Perhaps combining xmpp with a social graph and some content blobs for photos and whatnot would be a start.
    • jjn2009 11y ago
      used to be a part of facebook chat api at one point which was probably the height of the protocol: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat
  • __jal 11y ago
    I fully agree. Social, like security, is a process, not a product. I'm still convinced that most of Twitter's problems would not exist if they had written an RFC instead of a business plan.
  • chc4 11y ago
    There's OStatus and ActivityStreams, which are implemented by Diaspora and GNU Social along with several other decentralized networks. Hell, OStatus is even an (extremely vague, actually horrible but whatever) W3C spec. edit: Ok, I was kinda wrong. Apparently it's just a community hub hosted on w3 and not officially affiliated. https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/ https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/ http://activitystrea.ms/ http://activitystrea.ms/