social-network-plan
Social network plan - goals, ideas, step, and tasks for a new site
Science Score: 44.0%
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Repository
Social network plan - goals, ideas, step, and tasks for a new site
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: joelparkerhenderson
- Default Branch: main
- Size: 174 KB
Statistics
- Stars: 34
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 8
- Open Issues: 19
- Releases: 0
Metadata Files
README.md
Social Network Plan

Abstract
We believe social networks have significant benefits for people and society. We want to explore the viability of new social networks that aim for more social good, and also that mitigate known challenges of spamming, hacking, tracking, and the like. This document is a request for comments.
About
About this document:
- We welcome comments: use issues or joel@joelparkerhenderson.com or @joel_henderson
- This plan is a work in progress and likely to change as we learn more.
- We edit quotations lightly for content and anonymity.
Ideas
Ideas that we are exploring - please let us know your comments.
Beginnings:
- Audiences: general public, niches, special interests?
- Comparisons: similarities/differences versus others?
- Communities: how can we encourage people to help?
- Motivations: gamification, extrinsic, intrinsic?
- References: articles, blogs, commentaries, etc.
Implementations:
- Scopes: benefits, features, minimum viable product?
- Names: real names, fake names, no names?
- Feeds: linear, algorithmic, customizable?
- Data: who owns it, who uses it, who controls it?
- Funding: advertisements, donations, subscriptions?
- Schema: data modeling, domain driven design?
Policies:
- Conduct policies: code of conduct, community guidelines, etc.
- Privacy policies: user rights, transparency guidelines, etc.
- Disclosure policies: security reporting, bug tracking, etc.
Possibilities:
- Matrix and Riot: secure decentralized communication and client
- Scuttlebutt: Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) distributed messaging
Technologies:
- Topologies: centralize, decentralize, distribute, federate?
- Routes: how to reach people, places, items, resources?
- Project management: priorities, expectations, timelines, tools, etc.
- Stacks: languages, frameworks, databases, interfaces, etc.
- Security: spammers, hackers, masqueraders?
Context
Context of this project includes areas such as: * Bigger social networks: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok, Snap. * Smaller social networks: MeWe, Vero, Ello, Clubhouse, WT.social, Parler. * Distributed social networks: Mastodon, Patchwork, GNU Social. * Blog networks: WordPress, Medium, Wix. * Static site generators: Hugo, Metalsmith, Jekyll. * Chat: WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, Signal, Discord, LINE, Kakao, Slack. * Active communities: Reddit, Hacker News. * Websites that use technology for social good: Wikipedia, Craigslist. Archive. * Foundations: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Free Software Foundation (FSF). * FLOSS groups: Open Source Initiative (OSI), Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). * Social coding sites: GitHub, GitLab, StackOverflow. * Social identity: GPG, Keybase. * Protocols: XMPP, ActivityPub, OTR, Signal. * Crowdfunding: Patreon, GoFundMe, Kickstarter, Indiegogo.
Owner
- Name: Joel Parker Henderson
- Login: joelparkerhenderson
- Kind: user
- Location: California
- Website: http://www.joelparkerhenderson.com
- Repositories: 319
- Profile: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson
Software developer. Technology consultant. Creator of GitAlias.com, NumCommand.com, SixArm.com, and many open source projects.
Citation (CITATION.cff)
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title: Social Network Plan
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type: software
authors:
- given-names: Joel Parker
family-names: Henderson
email: joel@joelparkerhenderson.com
affiliation: joelparkerhenderson.com
orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4681-282X'
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description: Social Network Plan
repository-code: 'https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social-network-plan/'
abstract: >-
Social Network Plan
license: See license file
GitHub Events
Total
- Watch event: 1
- Push event: 1
- Fork event: 1
Last Year
- Watch event: 1
- Push event: 1
- Fork event: 1
Committers
Last synced: 10 months ago
Top Committers
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Joel Parker Henderson | j****l@j****m | 136 |
| モハメド | f****d@m****p | 3 |
| Paul | p****a | 2 |
Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)
Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 10 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 22
- Total pull requests: 4
- Average time to close issues: 1 day
- Average time to close pull requests: about 3 hours
- Total issue authors: 2
- Total pull request authors: 2
- Average comments per issue: 0.59
- Average comments per pull request: 1.0
- Merged pull requests: 4
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
- Issues: 0
- Pull requests: 0
- Average time to close issues: N/A
- Average time to close pull requests: N/A
- Issue authors: 0
- Pull request authors: 0
- Average comments per issue: 0
- Average comments per pull request: 0
- Merged pull requests: 0
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Top Authors
Issue Authors
- joelparkerhenderson (21)
- popey456963 (1)
Pull Request Authors
- iamrare (3)
- pajoda (1)