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Re:Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web by danielsiders on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @03:10PM (#4419019)
Diaspora* is a federated open source social network. It does not have a protocol specification or an API for app support/integration. Diaspora* is not intended to be run as one server/user, but by clustering users on pods with pod administrators, etc.
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Re:Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web by Meldryn on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @03:15PM (#4419049)
Reading the API docs, it seems that every user needs their own URI to be uniquely identified. I wonder how this will work with the average user, just IP address? What about users with shared internet?
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Re:Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web by danielsiders on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @03:19PM (#4419070)
You're correct-- we anticipate users either registering their own domains (i.e. http://danielsiders.com) or using a hosted service that provides subdomains (http://danielsiders.tent.io). If you're hosting at home (dream solution here is plug computers), then dynamic DNS pointing to your home IP/computer.
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Re:Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web by kevingranade on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @04:14PM (#4419324)
PageKite (pagekite.net) is another solution for self-hosted from a household. plug
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Re:Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web by mmahemoff on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @06:12PM (#4419906)
This was the mistake Open ID made, which they later realised complicated things way too much for the average user. Regular users want to identify as an email address, not a URI.
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