Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey

Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by thosmos on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:19PM (#22014277)

I haven't read the whole paper yet so I might be missing the reason for this, but I'm surprised that the most significant P2P social networks I'm familiar with and actually use aren't included: Patchwork & Firechat. After a quick scan of the paper, the ones included have some various attributes that are presumably interesting from an academic research point of view, but I'm naturally curious to hear an academic's view of the above more actually useful (personal value judgment) apps, especially in comparison with the ones they included ....

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by ChristianBundy on Friday January 10, 2020 @03:16PM (#22014982)

Yeah, it seems like they're using "P2P" to mean "federated", which is backward. I'm surprised that they didn't think to include Secure Scuttlebutt in their paper.

Disclaimer: I work on Patchwork and SSB in general. :~)

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by rolleiflex on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:40PM (#22015881)

Yup, SSB is a major one missing. Admittedly I was looking for my own network, Aether, which has more users and nodes than some of those listed — but if SSB is missing, then all bets are off.

I've honestly never heard of most of the things in that list and I spend a lot of time in P2P circles. Interesting.

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by kick on Friday January 10, 2020 @08:25PM (#22017367)

Aether has such a compelling pitch that I was going to install it despite the Electron bloat it'd introduce on my system, but then saw that you used snaps, which was really unfortunate.

Have you considered something like AppImage instead? While not ideal, it minimizes your effort while also being compatible with every other distribution without requiring your users to install a large, complicated piece of software/package manager like Snap.

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by rolleiflex on Saturday January 11, 2020 @03:39AM (#22018919)

Aether is a Go app, we use Electron just for the GUI. We do no processing in it - we do the processing in the go backend daemon. It’s pretty snappy and light.

I tried AppImage first, it didn’t work.

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by ChristianBundy on Saturday January 11, 2020 @12:15PM (#22020977)

If you're interested, I think it would be really wise to have our DIY P2P communities chat more often. It's great to all get together at events like Dweb camp, but since we're all working on similar problems maybe more communication is better?

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by rolleiflex on Saturday January 11, 2020 @01:43PM (#22021524)

Yes! I’m chatting semi-regularly with a bunch of SSB people over Twitter, but I would love to chat / help out more. SSB is a much bigger project than Aether so I’m sometimes at a loss who to talk to since I don’t know the project structure or who the core developers for certain features are. My email is in my HN profile, please do reach out.

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by fenwick67 on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:45PM (#22014605)

Same here, I've never heard of anything in Table VII.

EDIT: Table VIII shows that these networks were all created by academics. No wonder we haven't heard of them.

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by elviejo on Friday January 10, 2020 @07:36PM (#22017097)

Probably because those networks have papers published about them.

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by ChristianBundy on Friday January 10, 2020 @10:14PM (#22017858)

I could be confused, but I think the SSB paper has been published already.

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