Sean Tilley

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Your heart is in the right place. Having all of these disparate projects speak the same protocol for maximum interoperability is a noble goal, but it is a gradual process that takes time. I have been keeping my eye on a few different projects within the space over the years, and have been exploring the Red/Friendica/Zot community after spending so much time on Diaspora and Tent.

I think there are some really great concepts and puzzle pieces held by these different projects.

RedMatrix has some brilliant ideas about federation, privacy controls, and decentralized authentication. You can visit a link to a contact's personal web site, and without logging in, it can securely establish permissions checks between you and the contact. You can see posts that are meant for just you. When a server goes down, other servers can help to provide missing comments, effectively causing the federated network to heal. You can clone your profile to another website and use it as a backup if your main site goes down, or as a relay system if you're trying to get around censorship.

Tent has some really good ideas about personal data storage, machine-readable post types that different applications can understand and make use of, and APIs that tie users to applications to servers. Users can authenticate into a web app and store the app data on their personal servers rather than on public ones.

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