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Diaspora* is one that's been around for yeeeeears. A federated Facebook basically. I always wished it'd take off since I do like the idea of having a personal page for very close friends and my network but it is much harder to take off because, while reddit and other sites have tech-minded folks willing to learn and migrate, very few people have an entire extended friend group looking to figure out what a decentralized federated Facebook would entail.
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> very few people have an entire extended friend group looking to figure out what a decentralized federated Facebook would entail
Indeed. It's a real swiss army knife of a platform, hard to even spec out a replacement. I had a go at that here a few years ago:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201023210758/https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/public-webspace
I'm sure I wrote out a more developed summary of this as a blog post, but I can't find it right now.
@DaisyLee @deadsuperhero