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What are the best channels to follow discussions on decentralized social networks? I see too many alternatives coming up and it is getting too time-consuming to follow all of them. Friendica (BTW this one is missing on the list in wiki), Buddycloud, Diaspora, to name just a few - where do they coordinate their efforts and how can an interested developer follow discussions of these projects?

Also it would be interesting to exchange experiences made with these new apps, so that not every developer has to check every network, what is not possible in one life - the already existing listings of alternatives are of great value, but a more systematic approach in collective knowledge gathering and exchange would be even better.

Hey, that´s what the internet was built for, wasn´t it? Still does no software for this exist? :)

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Honestly there isn't a lot of coordination, but many of the people most interested in decentralization participate in one or more of these networks. As one of the architects of Tent (https://tent.io) I spend a lot of time talking with others on Tent about similar projects.

I can not see what I am looking for there, sorry. The Tent protocol certainly is interesting, but I was asking for an open place where it is possible to share / exchange / collect and extract knowledge and experiences about decentralized social network software.

I was hoping for an open, easily available information source that can be followed.

I would hope this project could be that hub. Propose an interop data exchange format where information can be freely shared among all "exchanges". I'm definitely not seeing this as an easy problem to solve but it would make all of this more accessible to the grandmas of the world.

The major problem I see is geeks always think their idea is perfect and have a hard time justifying the technical cost of implementation when it doesn't directly affect them ("You mean I have to make feature x to help my competitor that's actually doing way better than I am at this? Psh!") Openness shouldn't only be about the ability to export and keep that information but to also interop and play nice with others.

I think it sucks that Disapora didn't have the traction it should have and I would hope that a data exchange format among all social networks would be beneficial to all. Unite against the Facebooks of the world. I believe united we can do this much better but its clear we haven't found the perfect disruption yet. I'm glad we haven't stopped trying because it's out there. Somewhere.

Just to be clear I'm not talking about the Tent website (https://tent.io), but the communication happening on Tent itself (or Diaspora, etc). There's a fairly strong dog fooding ethic around the decentralized projects, especially since so many of them are "social" in nature, using the projects themselves to communicate is strongly embraced by many.

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