<story><title>Diaspora* social network federation protocol</title><url>https://diaspora.github.io/diaspora_federation/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sleavey</author><text>An open protocol sounds like the only sustainable solution that protects privacy. Are there any other popular, open protocols in the wild?</text></item><item><author>supermdguy</author><text>I added this link, instead of the main diaspora* page, because I&amp;#x27;ve been looking into open social network _protocols_, instead of just distributed social network systems. An open protocol would enable much more competition in the social network space, since users would still be able to communicate with their friends when trying out a new social networking app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edhelas</author><text>XMPP :)&lt;p&gt;Fully realtime, can handle huge load, several serious servers out there, interesting clients. XMPP can do IM, but it can also do social networking (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;xmpp.org&amp;#x2F;extensions&amp;#x2F;xep-0060.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;xmpp.org&amp;#x2F;extensions&amp;#x2F;xep-0060.html&lt;/a&gt; XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;xmpp.org&amp;#x2F;extensions&amp;#x2F;xep-0277.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;xmpp.org&amp;#x2F;extensions&amp;#x2F;xep-0277.html&lt;/a&gt; XEP-0277: Microblogging over XMPP) for many years now.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m working on Movim a social network fully relying on the XMPP protocol &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;movim.eu&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;movim.eu&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;, we already have many nice features social and IM wise.</text></comment>
<story><title>Diaspora* social network federation protocol</title><url>https://diaspora.github.io/diaspora_federation/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sleavey</author><text>An open protocol sounds like the only sustainable solution that protects privacy. Are there any other popular, open protocols in the wild?</text></item><item><author>supermdguy</author><text>I added this link, instead of the main diaspora* page, because I&amp;#x27;ve been looking into open social network _protocols_, instead of just distributed social network systems. An open protocol would enable much more competition in the social network space, since users would still be able to communicate with their friends when trying out a new social networking app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jgroszko</author><text>These open protocols seem pretty cool, but I&amp;#x27;m curious what sort of improvements for privacy people expect them to offer? Federating with other servers just means you&amp;#x27;re trusting each server operator with your (semi?)-public data. Additionally most people don&amp;#x27;t have the technical know-how to run their own servers, so users will most likely concentrate on a few large servers anyway, defeating the decentralized advantages...</text></comment>