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I suggest to move the comparison to a separate page as it is common with other topics. 14:08, 10 April 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthias-Christian Ott (talk • contribs)
I am about to migrate section "Comparison of projects" to a separate article, as Matthias-Christian has suggested. I have created the new article. Toni Stoev (talk) 01:14, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Freenet:Freenet seems to be a very nice project, but its lack of federation support makes it irrelevant for the table of distributed social network projects. Please, anyone feeling competent on this topic, comment and/or argue. I intend to remove the Freenet entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toni Stoev (talk • contribs) 21:34, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
External links are discouraged in the body of the article: Wikipedia:External links. I converted a bunch to references. I guess the ones that are left should be also be converted to references or removed if not important. Gravthuth (talk) 14:59, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed. All links within the comparison table were internal or references until recently. I intend to make them again on next editing. Toni Stoev (talk) 22:38, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
DSNP is currently a protocol development project, and not a software project; although it has its software reference implementation.[1] So I am changing its "Project" column entry to DSNP again. Toni Stoev (talk) 18:50, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
How do distributed social networks "contrast" from aggregation services? Under this definition, appleseed is distributed, but diaspora is just an aggregator, yet both services aim to be self-hosted and both claim to be "distributed social networks." Binaryorganic (talk) 23:27, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for porting the project list from GNU Social's Wiki over to Wikipedia, but I'm a bit confused by the use of the word distributed. These systems are or are willing to become decentralized and federated, but since they all store their own user data in a single place, they are not distributed in a computer science sense of the word. They would be distributed if data was being stored on several nodes, e.g. in a peer-to-peer architecture or in a distributed hashtable. Projects are being developed that are indeed distributed, so how do we distinguish those from the ones that are actually federated rather than distributed? I think this document describes very precisely the federated social web rather than distributed social networks which actually only exist in prototypical stage (PeerSoN, RetroShare, Tonika, status updates over GnuNet, PSYC over GnuNet). --lynX (talk) 16:27, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Could I second this, please? At the least, another column is needed listing the degree of decentralisation on each of these services. I would do it myself but hopefully someone else could do it much more quickly than I could do all the research. --Russell E (talk) 01:57, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Dispersed and federated are the nodes that comprise a distributed social network. The nodes may be distributed systems themselves. Data storing may be distributed among those nodes. Also, I am reminding that the projects are being compared for their software and/or protocols and not as services. Toni Stoev (talk) 02:38, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry I really don't get this alternative term and I never heard of it before, please provide an explanation (not just citation) or maybe we should remove it. --14.198.220.253 (talk) 06:49, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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