Tent appeared out of the blue today: a protocol and reference server implementation for individual-to-individual distributed social networking. Or to put it another way, Tent is a way to host your own social data - posting and reading from as many apps as you want. Here's their announcement,
Here are some distributed social networking platforms and technologies designed to facilitate distributed social networking: * Status.net * DiSo * 6D * Kopal * DSNP * Noserub * Appleseed * OneSocialWeb * Diaspora (included for completeness, but there isn’t any code yet) Wow, that’s a lot! And following Diaspora’s flurry of both coverage and cash,
For almost five years, I’ve had a dream of creating a decentralized social networking system with granular access permissions and a customizable workflow. It would be open source, with an underlying, decentralized open protocol based on XMPP that anyone could build on top of and extend. It would redefine