Decentralized Social Network

[Hyena]

I'm sick and tired of facebook's supremacy.
Has anyone thought about decentralizing a social network service?

It should base on private/public key cryptography except your account's data should not be stored on the network I guess. The protocol should just make it possible to discover friends and get their news, likes and shares easily.

I don't feel it being impossible and I'd love to host my own front end to my social media data. It would be pretty much like a normal homepage except it would have its own standardized API for other people to fetch my updates.

Somewhat similarly to wordpress (open source, easy to set up).

Actually I'm not sure if it even needs the private/public key cryptography at all. Any thoughts?

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[stevegee58]

Diaspora is one of many decentralized/p2p social networks.  You're not the first to think of it.

[chmod755]

Somewhat similarly to wordpress (open source, easy to set up).

Diaspora maybe?

[Hyena]

Diaspora is one of many decentralized/p2p social networks.  You're not the first to think of it.

Thanks. Also, cool avatar.

[joecascio]

A few references to read up on:

http://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page BitMessage uses bitcoin's public ledger approach.

http://tent.io Tent is probably closest to what you're thinking of. Making Tent secure using public key cryptography would be an interesting combination.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/papers/peer.pdf This is a very intriguing idea which was never implemented, that combines bitcoin's proof-of-work concept with identity. Allows you to create "expensive" identities, which would deter spammers and trolls.

[Hyena]

A few references to read up on:

http://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page BitMessage uses bitcoin's public ledger approach.

http://tent.io Tent is probably closest to what you're thinking of. Making Tent secure using public key cryptography would be an interesting combination.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/papers/peer.pdf This is a very intriguing idea which was never implemented, that combines bitcoin's proof-of-work concept with identity. Allows you to create "expensive" identities, which would deter spammers and trolls.

Thanks, after seeing Diaspora I was sort of disappointed. I actually meant p2p social networking so that the network discovery could be similar to bitcoin and others.

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