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With an open standard, I don't see why you can't host your own social network similar to how people host their own email servers or websites right now.
by bhl 8y ago
With an open standard, I don't see why you can't host your own social network similar to how people host their own email servers or websites right now.
- dmitriid 8y agoWhat's an "open standard for a social network"?
- ddingus 8y agoThis is the question! I look at what people do with reddit, Facebook, twitter, various forums, and it looks like a more spiffy USENET. We have a piece of that standard. More needed
- dmitriid 8y agoMuch. Much more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368649
- icebraining 8y agoCurrently, it seems to be ActivityPub, which projects like Mastodon use.
- dmitriid 8y agoIt's a protocol. People don't use social networks because of protocols. Coming back to this statement: > With an open standard, I don't see why you can't host your own social network You also need: - photo hosting - video hosting - comments - timelines - feeds - search - social graphs - (etc.) for a social network to have any relevance.
- bhl 8y ago> People don't use social networks because of protocols. I agree with this point: usability is often not affected by what happens in the back. However, with open standards, it would be possible that people create other social networks because of protocols. You mention all these technical problems that have to be solved to create a social network. I can see someone building an open source framework for all of these. For example with personal websites, everything except social graphs and feeds already exist.
- dmitriid 8y agoThere are quite a few open source framework for all/many of these. Mastodon, Scuttlebutt to name a few. They are somewhat popular, but they are bad at many of the things I described.