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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by marknadal on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:29PM (#22016726)
Notice:

This is about FEDERATED networks, not P2P.

Mastodon, Diaspora, etc.

Also, it is not comprehensive:

Matrix (9M users), SOLID, D.Tube, etc. not mentioned

Examples of P2P:

WebTorrent, GUN (11M+ users), SSB, etc.

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by Vinnl on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:27AM (#22019359)
If you're talking about TimBL's Solid, I wouldn't call that a social network: it's a set of specifications for data storage, on top of which people could build a federated social network.

(Disclosure: I work at inrupt, TimBL's startup, but this is my personal opinion.)

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by 0xff00ffee on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:59PM (#22016890)
What's the difference? Is it that P2P lacks a central server but federated is distributed servers (i.e. no single central server, just a bunch that can authenticate against each other)?
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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by EuAndreh on Friday January 10, 2020 @07:01PM (#22016911)
Federated: there's a distinction between clients and servers.

P2P: there are only nodes.

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by eeZah7Ux on Saturday January 11, 2020 @10:13AM (#22020234)
No.

P2P: leaf nodes can communicate directly to each other. The network can be flat or structured. There can be more important nodes or not.

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Re:Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by EuAndreh on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:54PM (#22016854)
Isn't GUN the one with the lexicographical LWW? It may allow peers to communicate between each other, but I would fit separately from WebTorrent or SSB.
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