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       Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey
        
       Author : infodocket
       Score  : 77 points
       Date   : 2020-01-09 13:22 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | 0xff00ffee wrote:
       | Is 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/
        
         | ChristianBundy wrote:
         | Darius 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...
        
           | 0xff00ffee wrote:
           | Interesting way of framing it. I need to reread this at the
           | beginning of the week, instead of Friday at 5:11PM!
        
       | thosmos wrote:
       | I 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 ....
        
         | ChristianBundy wrote:
         | Yeah, 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 wrote:
           | Yup, 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.
        
         | fenwick67 wrote:
         | Same 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.
        
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