Show HN: Seguir – self hosted social network back end

I started building this because I have a requirement at my current company, and wanted to understand the problem space before I figured out if there was anything out there I could just use ... Then I got hooked and just kept writing code ;) I originally used the Twissandra project for inspiration (huge thanks). Ultimately looking for feedback on how useful this is to anyone else, and ideally other contributors who can help flesh it out and get some client libraries for various platforms built.

Friends, news feeds, public or private posts, following.<p>Why Facebook is the only model of &quot;social network&quot; and its features considered the canonical &quot;social network&quot; features? No one is ever going to make a social network that does not resemble the experience of having infinite things to read and the urge to share everything that happens to you in a personal space, expecting it to be shown automatically to others?<p>Is this really how a &quot;social network&quot; in the real world works?