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Implementing Federated Social Networking: Report from the Trenches

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Antonio Terceiro,

Paulo Meirelles,

Fabio KonAuthors Info & Claims

OpenSym '17: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Open Collaboration

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3125433.3125455

Published: 23 August 2017 Publication History

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The federation of social networks aims at integrating users by means of a decentralized structure, enabling the interoperability among multiple social networks in a transparent way. Despite a few isolated initiatives in federating open social networks, there is no adoption of any standard, which hinders the emergence of new, effective federated systems. To understand the difficulties in the development and standardization of federated services, we have conducted research on existing specifications and implementations of interoperability among social networks. We have developed a federation proof of concept within the Noosfero platform, implementing a subset of the Diaspora protocol to federate users and public content, in addition to complementary specifications, such as Salmon and WebFinger. In this work, we introduce our results to federate Noosfero with Diaspora networks, pointing the required steps before further development. We aim to implement the Diaspora protocol within Noosfero, finishing its specification and improving its documentation, encouraging more projects to adopt this protocol.

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Implementing Federated Social Networking: Report from the Trenches
1. Networks
  1. Network components
  2. Network types
    1. Public Internet

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Raman AJoglekar SCristofaro ESastry NTyson G(2019)Challenges in the Decentralised WebProceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference10.1145/3355369.3355572(217-229)Online publication date: 21-Oct-2019
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