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"Protecting user privacy is a vital priority for the Fediverse. Many fediverse instances, such as Kolektiva, are focused on serving marginalized communities who are disproportionately targeted by law enforcement. Many were built to serve as a safe haven for those who too often find themselves tracked and watched by the police. Yet this raid put the thousands of users this instance served into a terrible situation."

Nice description of trade offs between federated and P2P styles of online social network architectures.

"A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they control. For people hosting instances, however, it can also mean some legal risk."

Intro: "Let’s address the mammoth in the room: the fediverse, the network of mastodon servers, is very inefficient. In this post I’ll show why it is inefficient and why that isn’t a problem."

[Video] Mastodon is a "federated" social network that works like Twitter. It puts the control of data into the user's hands, not in a single corporation.

twister is an experimental peer-to-peer microblogging software.
User registration and authentication is provided by a bitcoin-like network, so it is completely decentralized (does not depend on any central authority). Post distribution uses kademlia DHT network and bittorrent-like swarms, both are provided by libtorrent.

RetroShare is a Free and Open Source cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform.

Table that compares various Fediverse software platforms.

[PDF] OStatus lets people on different social networks follow each other. It applies a group of related
protocols (PubSubHubbub, ActivityStreams, Salmon, Portable Contacts, and Webfinger) to this problem in what we believe is a simple and obvious way

Zot is a WebMTA which provides a decentralised identity and communications protocol using HTTPS/JSON.