Or to put it another way, in every centralised social network system there is one Hacking you (criminals and/or the state). Malevolent interests either through legal mechanisms (by the state) or by The servers can still be subpoenaed and spied upon and presumably blocked by Paranoid, robust, slow, server-free options.įor AFAIK all of the above options, apart from possibly the host-proof ones, They are presumably sharing less information with the Facebook marketing and These fun DIY systems are good simple starting points. Network, and it talks to other servers for you to create a global mesh of You and a community barnraise a server together for your local social
Various of the turnkey options above also allow you to self-host, plus there are Mike Hoye divulges Mozilla’s evaluation of some options. Principle it should be hard for adversaries to spy upon. Keybase, Wire, Wickr and (partially) Riot claim to be host-proof, so in If you just want something efficient for your purposesĪny of those will work, and they offer varying degrees of guarantees about not Some of the features of the social network in terms of telling you not to forget birthdays,
Or, dunno if it fits here, but look at this attempt to provide the Similar, a group chat that could be shoehorned into being social. Groupware version of the wire chat client.
Requires people to learn how to turn on notifications, and you end up with a Its UX is unsatisfactory for ad hoc groups (signing on is hard, and it Towards workplace organising than other chat programs.
Platform which you can install on your own server. There are turnkey technical solutions designed to do this for various use cases.