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====Distributed Social Networks====

There are also social initiatives which operate in a more P2P-oriented style with all social computation and modeling happening in a software running on the user's device itself. [http://socialswarm.net Social Swarm], a working group of the German digital rights foundation FoeBuD, is researching such solutions as they bear the very favorable feature of enabling end-to-end encryption between all communication members, leaving no unencrypted data on server nodes. In contrast to the ''federated social web'', this solution would require no installation of nodal computers in people's homes.