@fribbledom If everybody hosts their own personal social network, what would anybody need a Facebook or a Twitter for?
@fribbledom Most of that seems like it could be pretty thin wrappers/adapters and there are indeed some neat possibilities for hooking all sorts of stuff into that. The gaming use case is compelling, but I think the easier it is to self-host as much as possible, the more control everybody has over their own experience. I remember when networked multiplayer was modems or LANs. Those games still work in contrast to too many examples where someone else controls the servers that got shut down.
@neal @fribbledom Search. It's the only thing that one can't do well with distributed social media.
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You're not going to host the entire social network yourself, you're merely hosting your profile data and social connections.
There are a lot of features that can still be built on top of that: chats, sharing of various media types, games, anything you can think of, really.