[FC-discuss] Decentralized social networking

[Rich Jones]

Sadly, the abundance of these is the very reason they will all fail.

Open standards are the only standards.

R

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Stephen Paul Weber
<singpolyma at singpolyma.net> wrote:
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> Somebody claiming to be Nelson Pavlosky wrote:
>> I personally think that BuddyPress <http://buddypress.org/>, a social
>> networking modification to Wordpress MU, has a lot of potential, and I
>> think that if they add in federation / cross-site communication like
>> Identica/Laconica it could be a good Facebook replacement.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Gabriel Joel Perez
>> <gabrieljoel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > In the past many members of Free Culture have expressed interest on the idea
>> > of a decentralized social network. Well there seems to be an organization
>> > working on a protocol and implementation for such a thing,
>> > http://noserub.com/ . It looks really interesting, I really hope it catches
>> > on.
>
> Another good project working on this stuff is <http://diso-project.org>
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