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The internet, in particular social networking, needs to become personal.

I fleshed out an idea for building a personal social infrastructure system that will hopefully accomplish just that, but haven’t put “code to disk” yet.

As time passes it’s becoming more clear that this is ultimately the right way forward, but it’s a big project.

Check out freetheinter.net and send me some feedback :)

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dch82@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Waitwaitwait what am I looking at here? It seems to be fairly similar to the concept of the Fediverse. Could you explain it?

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- helopigs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s intended to be much more local and decentralized than the fediverse, under the assumption that over time large fedi instances will exhibit the same issues as large centralized social networks (profit seeking, manipulation, etc)
  
  Instead of many people connecting to the same server, people only connect to people’s devices that they know
  
  It uses the resources of users “daily driver” devices for hosting
  
  It leverages “real life” personal connections and trust to deny access to large centralized entities
  
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    This sounds a lot like Circles
    
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  - dch82@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Sounds really cool! So it’s essentially “serverless” in the sense that it runs on users’ devices right?
    
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    helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I mean, it sounds cool if you don’t understand why servers exist…
    
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