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Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber (www.theverge.com)
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Today, I’m talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor to Twitter, er, X. Bluesky actually started inside of what was then known as Twitter — it was a project from then-CEO Jack Dorsey, who spent his days wandering the earth and saying things like Twitter should be a protocol and not a company. Bluesky was supposed to be that protocol, but Jack spun it out of Twitter in 2021, just before Elon Musk bought the company and renamed it X.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The TOR network is indeed the most widely-used implementation of onion routing, but it isn't the only example.

My go-to reference is Retroshare, an open-source app that implements onion routing on top of an encrypted friend-to-friend network:

http://retroshare.cc/

You only connect to your trusted friends, but by passing messages along the Kevin Bacon chain it's still possible to reach practically anyone on the network. Retroshare's built-in services include email, instant messaging, traditional web forums, microblogging, and Reddit-style karma-ranked forums/linkboards, and third party plugins include voice and video chat. It's desktop-only, but I think it demonstrates that serverless social networks are possible.