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Does anyone on HN have an interest in building a decentralized social network together? I've been thinking about doing this for a while now. Feel free to shoot
by laksmanv 7y ago
Does anyone on HN have an interest in building a decentralized social network together? I've been thinking about doing this for a while now. Feel free to shoot me an email laksman [at] stanford [dot] edu
- M2Ys4U 7y agohttps://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
- riffic 7y agoI want to build the "NationBuilder" of the Fediverse. A PaaS / SaaS giving nonprofits, indie media, and grassroots pols access to host their own social media platform on their own web domain.
- 80386 7y agoWhat's the problem with existing ones? And why do social networks draw so much attention relative to other social platform patterns, like forums? I've been thinking for a while that there should be something like a decentralized omni-Reddit. I liked forums, but people don't want to use them anymore, because there are too many different signups and too many different notification streams/etc. on too many different sites to bother with - so if you had something like Mastodon for forums, that could mitigate that. But it seems like a consensus has set in that Facebook/Twitter-like social networks are the One True Model, and very few people are interested in things like forums anymore.
- kixiQu 7y agoAlways love boosting other people's open-source projects: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy "A link aggregator / reddit clone for the fediverse."
- ChristianBundy 7y agoIf you're interested in joining an existing group of folks who are already working on this: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ Feel free to email me if you'd like an invite to the network.