Add Hubzilla (add new category for "distributed application ecosystems?)

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I’ll create a new topic shortly but first want to dig up any prior conversations around this. I know some exist.

Found some related topics, I’m going to post there and crosslink the topics once I write the initial revive topic and follow up with a response to this thread.

From here on, we should revert back to discussing the consideration of the new category (for lack of a better category “Distributed Application Ecosystems”) for Peergos, and for this thread considering adding Hubzilla to the mix. @ianopolous, does peergos and similar applications have a market “category” name yet?

Even if it’s still in the works as this is a relatively new software if marketers agree on the name then there will be money to drive adoption of that for the category. To be clear on other examples that I don’t think have privacy baked in are:

Blockchain ones:

I haven’t seen much going on with FUTO lately, I was excited for Freenet/Hyphanet until I saw @jonah’s freenet review, and GNUnet still seems to suffer from hacker toolitis.

I’m less keen on adding blockchain due to the hype cycle confusion with cryptocurrency and the vulnerability this ecosystem places on people who don’t understand the tech yet - not to mention privacy is contingent on the network details and coupled with currency. I personally want currency and system resources as separate abstractions so that if one fails it doesn’t upend my entire existence.

This is ultimately to build an idea of the category I’m considering, it doesn’t just fit in cloud storage, distributed social media, web of trust, or alternate networks, but those aspects are kind of comingled in various ways.

Hubzilla seems to be promising as it integrates well into the Fediverse on many open protocols, Peergos is quite similar and both have my attention and esteem.

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