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I think this is too little, too late...or at the very least too late. I'm heading towards more and more decentralized means of posting and communicating...you

by mxuribe 10y ago

I think this is too little, too late...or at the very least too late. I'm heading towards more and more decentralized means of posting and communicating...you know, where I can control my own fate at least a tad more. Good luck to twitter, but this is so yesterday. ;-)

mmel 10y ago
Are there decentralized social media platforms? What do you mean by decentralized? Posting on individual websites with different accounts?
- Sylos 10y ago
  Yeah, there are decentralized social networks. A few that I know of: https://diasporafoundation.org/ https://diasporafoundation.org/ https://gnu.io/social/ https://gnu.io/social/ http://friendica.com/ http://friendica.com/ https://movim.eu/ https://movim.eu/
  - spdustin 10y ago
    Let me add to the question: Any such network that is actually used by more than very niche peer groups, that wouldn't be just as well served by IRC, Slack or Matrix or Discord?
    - niftich 10y ago
      You list two open chat protocols and two proprietary services based around rich media chat. Despite bells and whistles, these are all fundamentally about chat and presence. A contemporary social network implies a profile, an asymmetric social graph between users, personal status history, an aggregate friend feed, and a content management system where users can upload and share media. Rich media chat apps can approximate some of these usecases but they aren't the same thing.
      - spdustin 10y ago
        With respect, I disagree; IRC with a bouncer and a bot would serve those functions handily. The other chat platforms also have mechanisms for groups, sharing files and metadata, and creating social "graphs" via the use of channels. I submit that they're no worse than the options listed. What makes Twitter better than the niche social graph/network tools presented? People are actually using it.

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I think this is too little, too late...or at the very least too late. I'm heading towards more and more decentralized means of posting and communicating...you

by mxuribe 10y ago

mmel 10y ago
Are there decentralized social media platforms? What do you mean by decentralized? Posting on individual websites with different accounts?
- Sylos 10y ago
  Yeah, there are decentralized social networks. A few that I know of: https://diasporafoundation.org/ https://diasporafoundation.org/ https://gnu.io/social/ https://gnu.io/social/ http://friendica.com/ http://friendica.com/ https://movim.eu/ https://movim.eu/
  - spdustin 10y ago
    Let me add to the question: Any such network that is actually used by more than very niche peer groups, that wouldn't be just as well served by IRC, Slack or Matrix or Discord?
    - niftich 10y ago
      You list two open chat protocols and two proprietary services based around rich media chat. Despite bells and whistles, these are all fundamentally about chat and presence. A contemporary social network implies a profile, an asymmetric social graph between users, personal status history, an aggregate friend feed, and a content management system where users can upload and share media. Rich media chat apps can approximate some of these usecases but they aren't the same thing.
      - spdustin 10y ago
        With respect, I disagree; IRC with a bouncer and a bot would serve those functions handily. The other chat platforms also have mechanisms for groups, sharing files and metadata, and creating social "graphs" via the use of channels. I submit that they're no worse than the options listed. What makes Twitter better than the niche social graph/network tools presented? People are actually using it.