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There's Diaspora, GNU Social, and I've heard of one that uses xmpp for accounts. Are these inter-operable? A challenge with starting a social network is that in the beginning, peoples' friends are not on it.
Yes, it's very difficult. Where I live in, people think there is only facebook, and refuse to try anything else.
I don't like the concept of "social network", but for those who do, it's important to build alternatives.
On 24/07/13 08:05, adel.afzal wrote:
> There's Diaspora, GNU Social, and I've heard of one that uses xmpp
> for accounts. Are these inter-operable? A challenge with starting a
> social network is that in the beginning, peoples' friends are not on
> it.
Yes. StatusNet (now GNU Social), Diaspora and Friendica all support
OStatus, meaning they are interoperable with each other (very much like
SMTP). I understand that pump.io also supports OStatus, but I can't find
any references for it.
Andrew.
> I understand that pump.io also supports OStatus, but I can't find
> any references for it.
It doesn't, it has its own API.
https://prism-break.org/#social-networking has a longer list of social
networking software.
(Off-topic issue: a "social network" is a graph of friends, not a
program representing it. They have much different issues.)
I am a member!
Where IS GNU Social anyway? The first release was supposed to come last month but it still isn't available.
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