If you're building a new social network today, it makes sense to tap into an existing social graph so you can bootstrap your network with an existing ecosystem. Michelle Lim made a great case for this in her post here:
https://www.michellelim.org/writing/into-the-fediverse/
These protocols exist today. This is a W3C recommendation as of 2018-01-23:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/
If you're building a new social network today, it makes sense to tap into an existing social graph so you can bootstrap your network with an existing ecosystem. Michelle Lim made a great case for this in her post here:
https://www.michellelim.org/writing/into-the-fediverse/
These protocols exist today. This is a W3C recommendation as of 2018-01-23:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/