I don't know much about it, but https://diasporafoundation.org/ came to
mind.  Regardless, in an age of Trump, I imagine P2P might see a resurgence
of interest...

-david

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Alex Pankratov <[email protected]> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: p2p-hackers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> > Of Tom Ritter
> > Sent: December 4, 2016 12:00 AM
> > To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks <p2p-
> > [email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Examples of federated IM systems?
> >
> > XMPP? I'd suggest it's about as federated as email: you have a few
> > giant providers (Google), a few specialty providers (ccc.de), and then
> > some holdouts run their own (resulting in perhaps the worst option for
> > metadata analysis?)
> >
> > But I am far from an XMPP expert.
>
> Yep, like XMPP but with information disclosure policies if you will.
>
> Basically, an option of allowing clients of the same server to know
> everything about each other (status, IP, custom attributes), and
> then allow access to the same information to *some* clients from
> other servers.
>
> The context is that I'd like to be able to run my own Skype-like
> server to be used for friends and family, but also allow people
> from other servers to communicate with us. In particular, I'd like
> to accommodate the case of having trust in external peers (and thus
> allowing them to see our status, IPs, etc.), but not necessarily in
> their server... if this makes any sense.
>
> Alex
>
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