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Currently, it seems to be ActivityPub, which projects like Mastodon use.

• dmitriid 8y ago
  It'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 ago
      There 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.