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Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey
- 0xff00ffee 7y agoIs anyone here a fan of Darius Kazemi? He's one of the people who I believe has a pulse on the future of the internet. He has a great document on how to roll your own federated social network: https://runyourown.social/ https://runyourown.social/
- ChristianBundy 7y agoDarius is great! I love to see that recommended. One of my favorite visions for the future of the internet, Zach Mandeville's modular essay The Future Will be Technical: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/ https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical...
- 0xff00ffee 7y agoInteresting way of framing it. I need to reread this at the beginning of the week, instead of Friday at 5:11PM!
- wmeredith 7y agoIs there a non-modular version of this I can read using a reasonable body font?
- thosmos 7y agoI haven't read the whole paper yet so I might be missing the reason for this, but I'm surprised that the most significant P2P social networks I'm familiar with and actually use aren't included: Patchwork & Firechat. After a quick scan of the paper, the ones included have some various attributes that are presumably interesting from an academic research point of view, but I'm naturally curious to hear an academic's view of the above more actually useful (personal value judgment) apps, especially in comparison with the ones they included ....
- fenwick67 7y agoSame here, I've never heard of anything in Table VII. EDIT: Table VIII shows that these networks were all created by academics. No wonder we haven't heard of them.
- elviejo 7y agoProbably because those networks have papers published about them.
- ChristianBundy 7y agoI could be confused, but I think the SSB paper has been published already.
- ChristianBundy 7y agoYeah, it seems like they're using "P2P" to mean "federated", which is backward. I'm surprised that they didn't think to include Secure Scuttlebutt in their paper. Disclaimer: I work on Patchwork and SSB in general. :~)
- rolleiflex 7y agoYup, SSB is a major one missing. Admittedly I was looking for my own network, Aether, which has more users and nodes than some of those listed — but if SSB is missing, then all bets are off. I've honestly never heard of most of the things in that list and I spend a lot of time in P2P circles. Interesting.
- kick 7y agoAether has such a compelling pitch that I was going to install it despite the Electron bloat it'd introduce on my system, but then saw that you used snaps, which was really unfortunate. Have you considered something like AppImage instead? While not ideal, it minimizes your effort while also being compatible with every other distribution without requiring your users to install a large, complicated piece of software/package manager like Snap.
- marknadal 7y agoNotice: This is about FEDERATED networks, not P2P. Mastodon, Diaspora, etc. Also, it is not comprehensive: Matrix (9M users), SOLID, D.Tube, etc. not mentioned Examples of P2P: WebTorrent, GUN (11M+ users), SSB, etc.
- EuAndreh 7y agoIsn't GUN the one with the lexicographical LWW? It may allow peers to communicate between each other, but I would fit separately from WebTorrent or SSB.
- 0xff00ffee 7y agoWhat's the difference? Is it that P2P lacks a central server but federated is distributed servers (i.e. no single central server, just a bunch that can authenticate against each other)?
- Vinnl 7y agoIf you're talking about TimBL's Solid, I wouldn't call that a social network: it's a set of specifications for data storage, on top of which people could build a federated social network. (Disclosure: I work at inrupt, TimBL's startup, but this is my personal opinion.)
- onebot 7y agoCan someone list all the p2p social networks that we know about? Honestly, have been trying to find ones that are truly p2p and not federated.
- lota-putty 7y agoHas anyone used Utopia : https://u.is/en/ https://u.is/en/ ?
- onebot 7y agoWow what is this? It is so cyberpunk! Is this legit?
- mutant 7y agoThey misspelled "Pleroma" in that main table.
- pasttense01 7y agoNo one wants to talk about IRC?
- rambojazz 7y agoIRC is not P2P.