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Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

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Post by r721 »

app4soft wrote: post #20
ignoranceprior wrote: post #2

Mastodon, GNU Social, and the Fediverse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_social https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse The two software systems are compatible (both comply with the OStatus standard) so you can interact with content on servers that use the system. Diaspora also exists, but it's arguably more like Facebook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(soc…

> Mastodon How decentralized alternative to Twitter works IRL: Never exists account - https://mastodon.social/@1234567890examplecom2021 > The page you are looking for isn't here. Suspended account - https://mastodon.social/@realDonaldTrump > The page you were looking for doesn't exist here anymore.

gargron (Mastodon dev)'s reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25697378

Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

i have a question for signal users. what happens when signal will be used by teams to organise the capitol building style attacks? or a disinformation campaign by a crony government? or racial message storms that make rounds on whatsapp (why they introduced the 5 forward limit)

Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

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Post by [deleted] »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #102

i have a question for signal users. what happens when signal will be used by teams to organise the capitol building style attacks? or a disinformation campaign by a crony government? or racial message storms that make rounds on whatsapp (why they introduced the 5 forward limit)

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Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

icy wrote: post #32
dredmorbius wrote: post #19

There are federated networks which don't allow for centralised access restrictions as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, et al, are evidencing today. But projects such as Mastodon put control in the hands of site or node administrators, and at least on Mastodon, there's an exceedingly healthy culture of blocking sites which themselves advocate oppressive practices. So those looking for an uncensored microphone may be somewha…

> there's an exceedingly healthy culture of blocking sites which themselves advocate oppressive practices Oppressive, but defined by whom? I've seen arbitrary blocks of instances simply because they run Pleroma or Soapbox. In fact, my own instance was briefly on fediblock.org's list because my bio says "I care about freedom—both in software, and in speech"; the reason stated was "free-speech". That's absurd! As is of…

“Free speech” servers are sort of infamous for nazis and brigading, unfortunately. There have been enough incidents that some moderators block first and ask questions later.

Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

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Post by zhte415 »

PMs: Email.

Posts: Blog. [XML-RPC if you wanna email from your phone to your blog. Different post-type or tag for 'like' vs 'post' (heck, invent any 'like' 'like' you like).]

Follow: RSS.

It's all there and decentralised for years, just not in a polished package of a 140 character comment, and likely requires more than 15 seconds of thinking. Actually really straightforward.

Only tricky thing would be SMS but that's... 'depreciated' as a popular feature today.

Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

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Post by Swenrekcah »

jonas21 wrote: post #67
systemvoltage wrote: post #40

Part of the genius of Twitter is the name and its brand. Twitter, tweet, tweeting, tweeted, etc. Even if Twitter had no goodwill, it's an excellent name for such a service. None of the options presented here have that. "Hey dude, did you see that mastodon post?" "I'll add you on GNU Social" "Fediverse is getting popular, wanna fediverse?" "Nmd'ed you!" "Totally Aaether that!" "Breaking News: The Prime Minister of Aus…

While Mastodon and Diaspora may be distinctly bad names, perhaps you don't need a great name either. Take Facebook, for example. Even with Twitter, I think there are probably thousands of words that would sound as natural as "tweet" if people were constantly saying it (and shouldn't it be "twit" anyway?).

The person with a twitter account could then be a ‘twat’

Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

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Post by avian »

zhte415 wrote: post #105

PMs: Email. Posts: Blog. [XML-RPC if you wanna email from your phone to your blog. Different post-type or tag for 'like' vs 'post' (heck, invent any 'like' 'like' you like).] Follow: RSS. It's all there and decentralised for years, just not in a polished package of a 140 character comment, and likely requires more than 15 seconds of thinking. Actually really straightforward. Only tricky thing would be SMS but that's.…

> Blog [...] Different post-type or tag for 'like' vs 'post'

See also Webmention for a way to have likes and replies on a blog that behave more like what you see on Twitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmention

Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

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Post by riffic »

nameless_noob wrote: post #13

There's Urbit and Twetch. First uses some of ethereum, and calling a twitter replacement is 1% of it's story. Twetch uses a bitcoin fork as a db and users have to pay to post, but get impression revenue directly

urbit: because templeOS wasn't nutty enough.

Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?

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Post by icy »

MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #95
icy wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discord is neither decentralized nor censorship resistant. Discord (the company) has full control over what is allowed to be discussed on there.

it's at least decentralized and discord afaik doesn't have employed mods that police every discord made out there unlike reddit. also discord, you need to opt in to ANYTHING. twitter you kinda do as well, but they've sort of turned into a weird news site now.

Do you somehow have the notion that Discord is decentralized because they have "servers"?
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