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The indieweb is a social web where everyone runs their own profile, on their own (sub)domain, potentially on their own servers - while being able to talk to their friends as easily as they could on Facebook or Twitter.

All based on open technologies, rough consensus, user-centered design and running code, rather than endless mailing lists and technical debate.



That sounds like (GNU Social) + (Diaspora) - (Distributed Content)

Sounds great until your (sub)domain(s) gets censored or targeted.


If a profile gets censored / targeted, it's one profile, vs an entire social network. But, eg, content being replied to is typically duplicated across profiles, so there actually is distribution of content.




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