https://alternativeto.net/software/facebook/?license=opensource
A decentralized model
Ethan Zuckerman is
director of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab. He also
thinks the corporate, monopolistic structure of Facebook is worth
rethinking. “Facebook has an awful lot of power by virtue of
the fact that you have a single company making decisions for about 2
billion people all around the world,” he says.Zuckerman says the next iteration of social networks could be
decentralized, instead of run by one company. One example of this is a
network that already exists, called Mastodon.
It looks like Twitter, but it’s open source: Anyone can create their
own community, hosted on their own server, with their own rules. “There’s
lots of little Mastodon servers that have anywhere from a few hundred
to a few tens of thousands of people on one another,” he explains. “But
they confederate: You can share information between those servers.” And
while the service doesn’t have tons of users so far, Zuckerman says the
architecture seems sound.
