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Decentralized social network: a customized phpBB with a good OpenID module would be enough. Host your own, authenticate yourself to other instances, use RSS fee
by arkh 7y ago
Decentralized social network: a customized phpBB with a good OpenID module would be enough. Host your own, authenticate yourself to other instances, use RSS feeds to create your own composite timelines.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoBut then nobody gets to write anything new. There is nothing the modern software developer loves more than writing new things from scratch that do same things as older things but slower and with more buzzwords.
- kerkeslager 7y agoYour idea breaks down immediately when you realize that hosting your own phpBB instance is far outside the capabilities of most users. This means that you're at least centralized into groups around phpBB hosts, i.e. this is a federated system. In practice, federated systems become centralized. Email, for example, is now mostly centralized in a few providers: GMail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc. Even if you don't use one of these providers, they have a significant percentage of your emails.