Hi DCSmith, that is already done in so called "J2" : http://retroshare.sf.net it is serverless instant messaging and a web of trust, so a social network. see a screenshot here: http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/retroshare_network.png The jabber servers could come into the frame for the profil search, you can make a profil, which is sent to a ring of servers, like the pgp servers they are always synchron updating (or use a DHT) and you can search for profiles (e.g. friends in the same city for the same school), get the pgp key and connect over retroshare messenger, which uses pgp keys for serverless decentral instant messaging.
Max On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Don Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I can tell there are a few things that jabber could do to > make decentralized social networking a reality. > 1. It appears I can do some sort of broadcast, if I had a client that > would agregate these into a newsfeed I believe it'd be the same as the > facebook newsfeed. > 2. It appears I can publish data to a jabber server and have other > people browse it. This could be used for interests/descriptions, etc. > All the stuff social networking does. Now if contacts could be given > different levels of access control then the same account could be used > for a wide variety of people leading to point 3. > 3. To be on a social network one would add a special buddy or service > that would be permitted to index either the published data, or hashes > of the public data (The hashes would prevent a server from data mining > easily.) You could then search the directory and ask to add someone as > a contact. > > I believe the above three items in effect replecate facebook client side. > Thoughts? Questions? ideas? >
