Comment by EGreg

Back in 2011 I saw this problem — that social networking (profiles, ratings, collaboration of all kinds) is all based on centralized platforms.

Even github as you said provides all the social layer on top of git and you jusy have to trust them.

There was no good software to take care of that stuff. So we built it. It’s exactly the federated API layer you’re talking about!

Here it is:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1O_gmPneI