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Distributed social network

A distributed social network (not to be confused with a decentralized or federated social network) is a network wherein all participating social networking services can communicate with each other through a unified communication protocol, and all participants are equal. Users that reside on a compatible service can interact with any user from any…

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Distributed social network

Nodes49
Edges48
Triples24
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.040816
Components1

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Distributed social network

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related to history · 10
Distributed social network → Consortium, EFF, Internet, July, Social Activity, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The World Wide Web, US, W3C, World Wide Web
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Distributed social network → ActivityPubAT ProtocolComparison

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social network federated services networking protocol used standards users distributed networks service across activitypub open content use user typically web

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
IndieWeb complementing the network.Services that want to natively connect into a federated social network need to be interoperable with both the majority of content that the network producesinstance ofwith more niche examples0.80text
Microformatsinstance ofas well as various standards for metadata0.80text
Open Graphinstance ofas well as various standards for metadata0.80text
othersinstance ofas well as various standards for metadata0.80text
OStatusinstance ofsome older projects typically used standards0.80text
XRDSinstance ofsome older projects typically used standards0.80text
Portable Contactsinstance ofsome older projects typically used standards0.80text
the Wave Federation Protocolinstance ofsome older projects typically used standards0.80text
XMPPinstance ofsome older projects typically used standards0.80text
OpenSocialinstance ofsome older projects typically used standards0.80text
microformats like XFNinstance ofsome older projects typically used standards0.80text
hCardinstance ofsome older projects typically used standards0.80text

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