Re: Snackis - towards a secure & distributed social network

[Vijay Lakshminarayanan]

I think GNU Social is the FSF's recommended way

https://www.gnu.org/software/social/


On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Andreas Wild
<andreas.gone.wild@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I had a kind of epiphany some time back, around the same time that I quit
> Facebook for the second time in disgust. The general idea is implement an
> open, distributed and secure alternative to some of the services that FB
> offers; without getting caught in the trap of replicating the existing mess
> but different for profit. Distributed as in no data on the server, plain old
> email is used as transport. And secure as in all data encrypted (using
> libsodium) and stored locally. I haven't had much luck in finding people who
> are motivated enough yet, but then I remembered a talk by RMS that I went to
> back in the days and how it helped get me started down this path. The
> software is implemented in C++ with a GTK+ UI and comes licensed under
> GPLv3, you may find it here:
>
> https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions or ideas, or if I'm posting
> this in the wrong place.
>
> Be well,
> Andreas
>
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Cheers
~vijay