Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?

1. ipfs

   1 485 22,789 4.4

   Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

   

   I love the idea. In terms of numbers and caps, I think going with Dunbar's number of 150 might work best.

   Cal Newport makes a point about how in the early days of Facebook, it was essentially mirroring your real world social network. In fact, I remember how fun and innocent Facebook was in its early days.

   Perhaps the biggest shift in Facebook's evolution is towards algorithmic feed optimisation and expansion into more public areas that exceed dunbar's number.

   Scuttlebutt (https://scuttlebutt.nz/) avoids this shift in its design by doing away with the "global singleton" network that Facebook, Instagram and other have.

   Another interesting project that is bringing back self-sovreign identity is Bluesky's At protocol (https://atproto.com/) which also make the "algorithm" part of a feed open source.

   Some building blocks that are worth considering: IPFS/IPLD (https://ipfs.tech/) and Hypercore (https://hypercore-protocol.org/).

   Disclaimer: I work full time on IPFS

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3. Movim

   2 42 1,781 9.7 JavaScript

   Movim - Decentralized social platform

   

   For social networking atop XMPP, see https://movim.eu/

   Combined with the in-development ActivityPub gateway from Libervia, interop with Mastodon, Pleroma and others becomes possible too. The decentralized social web space is quite active at the moment.

4. matrix.to

   3 261 1,028 5.7 JavaScript

   A simple stateless privacy-protecting URL redirecting service for Matrix

   

   In case folks are curious: A stable release of Bluesky/ATProto's reference server, client, and dev tooling should land early next year. There's an active matrix channel if you want to follow closely at https://matrix.to/#/#bluesky-dev:matrix.org

5. diaspora*

   4 90 13,452 8.2 Ruby

   A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.

   

   diaspora* is still a thing, and what you describe looks like its concept of "aspect", which was developed before google+ " circles". It is AGPL, you're welcome to contribute or fork it. https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora

6. Elgg

   5 11 1,651 9.6 PHP

   A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL

   

7. spreed

   6 22 1,848 10.0 JavaScript

   🗨️ Nextcloud Talk – chat, video & audio calls for Nextcloud

   

8. ITCB-master

   7 3 10 1.8 HTML

   Discontinued One Repo to Find Them, and In the Darkness, Bind Them

   Thanks. I’ve considered doing stuff like Vimeo/YouTube stuff, and may do so, but it’s a lot of work. I’ve had a full dance card, the last couple of years, and that has even affected my text postings (which is why I came up with my “Shorties”[0] series).

   I enjoy writing, but don’t enjoy video production as much (but I haven’t really done enough to say that, definitively).

   When I give talks and classes, I spend a lot of time, preparing. I spent close to a month, preparing this 90-minute Bluetooth class[1].

   I have just been a bit strapped for time, lately.

   [0] https://littlegreenviper.com/series/shorties/

   [1] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY/ITCB-master

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10. Coze

    8 28 116 2.5 Go

    Coze is a cryptographic JSON messaging specification.

    

    How to fix censorship on social media?

    Empower everyone with their own cryptographic keys.

    This requires easier to use cryptographic tools so developers can write clients for users. I'm working on a tool that makes using cryptography easier:

    https://github.com/Cyphrme/Coze

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