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What happened to the Decentralized Facebook that everyone was so excited about a few years ago?
by NedIsakoff 8y ago
What happened to the Decentralized Facebook that everyone was so excited about a few years ago?
- dragontamer 8y ago"What happened" to it? You're LOOKING at it, right now! PeerTube builds on top of the Mastodon / ActivityPub network, which is Decentralized Facebook. In effect, this is showing the network effect of the new open-source / federated protocol. It can be extended to host videos over Bittorrent over WebRTC through the Web Browser (all port 80, no configuration, Javascript clients only), while publishing over the Mastodon / ActivityPub federation. ---------- I think there are some legitimate privacy issues with regards to Bittorrent over WebRTC (public publishing of IP Addresses and such), but as long as its a configurable flag that individual servers can turn off, then the federation can grow.
- synchronise 8y agoMastodon is a decentralised Twitter, Hubzilla would be the decentralised Facebook.
- cam3ham 8y agothey successfully raised crowdfunding..
- monocasa 8y agoIf you're talking about Diaspora, it more or less failed because of some technical decisions made early on, but there was a lot to be learned from their effort. What you're seeing here is the second wave of stabs at the same concept, after internalising some of Diaspora's lessons.
- dredmorbius 8y agoWhich tech decisions? Link is fine if you happen to have one.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoNobody moved to it, cause nobody knew anyone on it.