Distributed social network
A distributed social network or federated social network is an Internet
A social website participating in a distributed social network is
A few social networking service providers have used the term more broadly to describe provider-specific services that are distributable across different websites, typically through added widgets or plug-ins. Through the add-ons, the social network functionality is implemented on users' websites.
Differences between distributed and federated networks
Both kind of networks are
Comparison of software and protocols
Distributed social network projects generally develop
History
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a U.S. legal defense organization and advocacy group for civil liberties on the Internet, endorses the distributed social network model as one "that can plausibly return control and choice to the hands of the Internet user" and allow persons living under restrictive regimes to "conduct activism on social networking sites while also having a choice of services and providers that may be better equipped to protect their security and anonymity".[3]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web, launched a new Social Activity in July 2014 to develop standards for social web application interoperability.[4]
In 2013, the
See also
References
- ^ "Unlike Us | Beyond distributed and decentralized: what is a federated network?". networkcultures.org. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
- ^ Recordon, David (2008-10-09). ""Blowing Up" Social Networks by Going Open". p. 27. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
- ^ Richard Esguerra (March 21, 2012). "An Introduction to the Federated Social Network". Electronic Frontier Foundation Deeplinks Blog.
- ^ "W3C Launches Push for Social Web Application Interoperability". World Wide Web Consortium. 21 July 2014.
- ^ "OMA Social Network Web (SNeW) v1.0". Open Mobile Alliance. 13 August 2013.
Further reading
- Paper on FOAF in an Android environment Archived 2022-12-06 at the Wayback Machine by Tramp, S., Frischmuth, P., Arndt, N., Ermilov, T., and Auer, S. (2011). Weaving a distributed, semantic social network for mobile users. In Antoniou, G., editor, ESWC 2011, Part I, LNCS 6643, pages 200–214.
External links
- W3C Social Activity
- Federated Social Web Conference 2011
- Video by Henry Story demonstrating FOAF in an Android environment
- BuddyCloud
- Mastodon