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"I'd pay money for software that mimicked Google+ / Facebook, but was open source and could be self-hosted. Bonus points if it ran on my Synology." I've seen s
by switch33 13y ago
"I'd pay money for software that mimicked Google+ / Facebook, but was open source and could be self-hosted. Bonus points if it ran on my Synology."
I've seen some decentralized facebook type stuff on github. Problem is non-centralized social networks are hard to scale as well as a bit strange to use for people.
- svalorzen 13y agoIt's called Diaspora*, looks nice and I'm planning to make an account in there soon.
- junto 13y agoI have looked at the diaspora website. I didn't get it. I'm promise you I'm not that stupid but their website was a car crash. Why do I need to create an account with them? I want something as simple as WordPress. If buddypress wasn't so ugly it could be an option.
- switch33 13y agoDiaspora was a fail of a P2P service. I would not recommend it.
- junto 13y agoI don't need decentralised in terms of P2P. I just want to own the data on my server.
- switch33 13y agoDecentralized is better than opening up a port to the whole big and bad internet that houses lots of thieves.