OMG http://sdf.org/
Internet, you'll keep surprizing me each and every day.
@polychrome I know right ?! I wasn't even born when they started. It's such a modern approach. It is centralized, but it aims at providing users with a fundamental and actually useful tool : a user account.
This is truly the embryo of what social networks could have been if they hadn't been about exploiting users as a natural resource : a platform to learn and share where you can actually do stuff and you're not made to believe internet is «the web».
@Sasha Best part is how old it is and that it survived intact to this day
This is one of the few community services that embody the original spirit of the net that managed to hold on in the hyper commercialized environment the net had turned into.