[HN Gopher] Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive ... ___________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-01-10 23:00 UTC)