Distributed Database for social media

• Mastodon

  1,227 46,080 10.0 Ruby

  Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

  

One popular implementation is Mastodon

• ctzn

  2 288 0.0 JavaScript

  Discontinued [DEPRECATED] An open social network built on the Hypercore Protocol data mesh.

  

Here's a project that uses something called the Hypercore Protocol to try and create a decentralized social network.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• solid

  117 8,167 0.0 HTML

  Solid - Re-decentralizing the web (project directory) (by solid)

  

Notwithstanding the fact that some “influencers” should be “censored” — there are plenty of ideas too stupid and/or repugnant to be allowed an audience, especially in a population too stupid and/or ignorant to discern good ideas from bad — the Fediverse is about the closest thing you’ll find to a workable solution, because complete decentralization while still retaining any form of privacy and control over your own footprint is extremely capital-H Hard. Tim-Berners Lee has been working on it, but a network of individual-sized always-on servers (his project’s notion of “pods”) is an infrastructure scaling problem that’s at least as big as the human population. The Fediverse model (one server per each micro-community, with federation between communities) gets you decent performance (everyone isn’t waiting on the slowest individual user’s connection) while distributing the data across (more or less granular) communities, which gives you at least some resistance to centralized censorship, though it does let each community “censor” (or “sensibly ignore”) other communities or individual members.

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