Manyverse still has the direct friend-to-friend invites, right? I'm pretty sure Patchwork still doesn't have this :/<p>If I could connect to the friends I know in person first, that would be great.<p>I think social networks gain momentum by being useful to real friendships and then the discovery aspect kicks in later. If it's all about finding random internet friends, it's going to set the tone for the whole life of the network.<p>All of the long-time users will be cemented in their random internet relationships and will be hesitant to then mix their real life relationships into that later on. It's just normal that these different social circles organize and it's normal that people don't typically mix them.
Apologies, @staltz could you expand more? Is this centralized? Or federated, along the lines of Mastodon?<p>Why not do this decentralized? Should be possible. NAB (p2p Reddit) does something similar with GUN via "spaces" that are under a public key, but requires no centralized host/server/etc. should be trivial to do the same in SSB.