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Patchwork
Discontinued A decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).
Nextcloud is probably among your better packaged options. Free Software / OSS:
Share and collaborate on documents, send and receive email, manage your calendar and have video chats without data leaks.
https://nextcloud.com/
For a Twitter equivalent, Mastodon.
Facebook's a bit more of a challenge --- longer-form content, the ability to group contacts, and the like.
Principally there are Diaspora*, Friendica, and Hubzilla, all based on or near the ActivityPub standard.
https://joinmastodon.org/
https://friendi.ca/
https://project.hubzilla.org/
There are limits and compromises to these, though all should handle small-scale (family/community) sharing easily. Mastodon's at millions of users, the others are probably smaller.
At scale, moderation and administration of Diaspora* is a bit of a pain, though that's (slowly) improving.
Nextcloud is probably among your better packaged options. Free Software / OSS:
Share and collaborate on documents, send and receive email, manage your calendar and have video chats without data leaks.
https://nextcloud.com/
For a Twitter equivalent, Mastodon.
Facebook's a bit more of a challenge --- longer-form content, the ability to group contacts, and the like.
Principally there are Diaspora*, Friendica, and Hubzilla, all based on or near the ActivityPub standard.
https://joinmastodon.org/
https://friendi.ca/
https://project.hubzilla.org/
There are limits and compromises to these, though all should handle small-scale (family/community) sharing easily. Mastodon's at millions of users, the others are probably smaller.
At scale, moderation and administration of Diaspora* is a bit of a pain, though that's (slowly) improving.
Nextcloud is probably among your better packaged options. Free Software / OSS:
Share and collaborate on documents, send and receive email, manage your calendar and have video chats without data leaks.
https://nextcloud.com/
For a Twitter equivalent, Mastodon.
Facebook's a bit more of a challenge --- longer-form content, the ability to group contacts, and the like.
Principally there are Diaspora*, Friendica, and Hubzilla, all based on or near the ActivityPub standard.
https://joinmastodon.org/
https://friendi.ca/
https://project.hubzilla.org/
There are limits and compromises to these, though all should handle small-scale (family/community) sharing easily. Mastodon's at millions of users, the others are probably smaller.
At scale, moderation and administration of Diaspora* is a bit of a pain, though that's (slowly) improving.
You're effectively describing Scuttlebutt in a nutshell. Small communities that are formed ad-hoc by peering with each other. "Follow" mean you'll help replicate their content for others who follow them + you. Scuttlebutt is already successful even though it's very small so far. Tags and other things can be used to explore content on the network, as long as you've found an entry-point.
I'm a bit split about spreading the word about Scuttlebutt, I don't want to ruin it since it's already so great. But felt it was very related to what you were writing, so here goes nothing :)
In case you wanna join: https://scuttlebutt.nz/
The client I'm using is https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork