Ask HN: Recommended reading for decentralizing a social network?

Re:Ask HN: Recommended reading for decentralizing a social n... by ColinWright on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:59AM (#28521657)

Just so you know ... that would exclude me. That's OK, of course, a more niche audience can lead to better and richer conversations, and there will always be people on the fringes.

Maybe you want a Mastodon instance that specialises in your sort of thing, and allow federation to catch the people who have interesting things to say, but are on a different instance.

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Re:Ask HN: Recommended reading for decentralizing a social n... by k00b on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:54AM (#28524829)

It would certainly exclude people initially but there are self-hosting "operating systems" emerging that enable users running a raspi to download and run pre-configured Docker containers as easily as an App Store app (e.g. https://getumbrel.com).

A federated Mastodon-like instance might be the move, but I have a way of providing Sybil resistance so could probably have an open p2p relay network. This is why I was asking for reading. I want to make sure I understand all the options.

For more context, I want to decentralize https://stacker.news which is basically an HN clone with Sybil resistance (costs bitcoin to post/broadcast) and karma is withdraw-able as bitcoin. The community is very fond of decentralization for obvious reasons plus I think it'd be a fun challenge.

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