Tent distributed social networking

[Christopher Browne]

Seen on teh InterWebz...  Yet another would-be alternative to FakeBook
and such...

http://tent.io/

Unlike some attempts at such, they have a focus on What Is The
Protocol, and while they offer a sample implementation, that's not
intended to be the only one.  Which seems a way better idea to me
than, um, wasn't it Diaspora?

What fills me with greater "warm fuzzies" about Tent is that it seems
to be aware of some of the things that took place vastly long before
Facebook...

"Tent began after a conversation between Jonathan Rudenberg, Daniel
Siders, Jesse Stuart, and Lucas Wojciechowski. It was inspired by
Hypertext, Xanadu, SMTP, the World Wide Web, and distributed
peer-to-peer services."

If they were thinking about Dream Machines/Computer Lib, that seems
rather more inspiring than "Let'z be 3l33t and clone Facebook!"

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