Peacenik

Ad-free, hate-free, distributed social network

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Ad-free, hate-free, distributed social network

4 followers

Peacenik has many of the same features as Facebook but is not driven by divisive content nor advertising. Peacenik is distributed and relies on techies, like me, willing to host secure / private servers for a group of friends.

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Paint the Cameras Dead

@matt_reider wow! Thanks for building this. Privacy is really important! I have a few questions: - 1) What makes you different from other similar-ish solutions? -2) How do you plan to monetize it (if any)

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5yr ago

Peacenik

Maker

@bogomep here you go!... 1) What makes you different from other similar-ish solutions? There are open source distributed networks like Diaspora and Mastadon that feel more like Twitter to me than Facebook. I prefer the Facebook model to share more personal things (photos, personal thoughts, etc) with friends and family rather than the Twitter model of "followers" who you may not know personally. There are also non-distributed, closed source alternatives that are more like Facebook, but are commercial, failing (or failed), or focus on things that seem unnecessary (to me) such as how Steemit incentivizes posting by offering their own crypto currency. Finally, I find most (not all) of these projects, especially the open source ones, fail the grandmother test. As an experiment, I asked my 84 year old mother, and some of her friends, to sign up and use Diaspora. None of them understood how or where to start. But they can, and do, use Peacenik. They got a friend request from me, just like Facebook, and signed up with little friction nor confusion. 2) How do you plan to monetize it (if any)? The plan (with no timeline, of course) looks like this. First, get it out there, quietly, and see what people think. That's where I am now. Next, after making changes based on user feedback, etc., be a little louder about it and focus on adoption, to see if the network can attract people and get some momentum without making any money (yet). Finally, if these things have gone well, monetize it using the Wordpress model (paid hosting). An early version of Peacenik included a button for in-app purchases ($5 a month or so) to deploy a message / photo server on a user's behalf in case they are not nerdy enough, aren't friends with someone nerdy enough, or just don't want to waste time. I removed this button and decided to just host a default message / photo server for those who don't have their own, in order to, again, make it super easy to use until adoption is stronger. There are a lot of ways this Wordpress model could go, including reseller partnerships with hyperscalers (big and small), who would sell CPU, memory, and storage as we put more workloads on their clouds.

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5yr ago

Paint the Cameras Dead

@matt_reider Thanks!

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5yr ago

Peacenik

Maker

I spent over a year building Peacenik as a friendly, safe, and distributed alternative to Facebook. I host the central server on my Kubernetes cluster and published to both app stores, but It's all open source and available on Github. Messages and photos are saved to other people's servers, not mine. Please check it out, ask me questions, and tell me what you think. And if you're interested in helping, I could certainly use a hand.

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5yr ago

Paint the Cameras Dead

and one more question - do you think about a migration tool from FB to Peacenik?

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5yr ago

Peacenik

Maker

@bogomep I have! Just involves precious time :)

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5yr ago

Paint the Cameras Dead