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Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
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Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#212I would say pleroma.social, you host your own instance and it's much lighter on computer resources than Mastodon.
Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#213Are there any tools out there that will posts your content to multiple platforms simultaneously? The current fringe sites are worthless to me since currently they are mostly created and used by people who were kicked off the top sites. However, as an example, if there was a tool that would post my video to youtube, dailymotion, and however other many video sites are out there I'd gladly do it. You could still maintai…
Maybe the Matrix project will eventually offer something like this:
Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#214Every time I go looking for one of these open alternatives it’s filled with fringe conspiracy theorists, actual racists, etc. Example is LBRY. Bryan Lunduke says he’s switching off YouTube for LBRY, so I go there to check it out. Top trending video is some white supremacist thing why I shouldn’t forget my ancestry. Search for “how to repair furnace”, second result is video how Epstein is alive. Even Lunduke is taking…
If you can create your own node on your own server with your own rules, it doesn't matter (so much) if there's a short-term infestation of disagreeables elsewhere.
Haven't recent times shown that allowing a bubble of disagreeables to congregate doesn't look like the best idea?
Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the indie approach, you would need to automate the self-hosting setup to gain realistic traction with the masses. What about somehow utilizing wireless router hardware for the local hosting? Pretty much everyone has a similar router/modem setup that's always connected to the internet. Could create a script that sets up a file structure directly on the router (or a usb stick plugged into the router) that stores/ho…
I myself don't think it's necessary to host it locally at home. The most key thing to me is to control the domain name so that I can move from one provider to another.
But if all the data is stored in a central database, wouldn't that essentially make it centralized?
Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Human nature eventually turns deplatforming the deplorables into deplatforming anyone I disagree with . A decentralized Twitter would need decentralized moderation.
> Human nature eventually turns deplatforming the deplorables into deplatforming anyone I disagree with. I agree with this part, but how does this part: > A decentralized Twitter would need decentralized moderation. ... not just turn into the first part after a time? I don't think there will ever be a "truly" decentralized twitter that is popular, because it would necessary have to lack any type of non-first-person m…
> how does this part not just turn into the first part after a time?
Probably would need a USA govt type setup...a core set of baseline rules (i.e. a constitution), a setup where changes aren't possible unless multiple parties agree (i.e. checks and balances), and a system of voting that doesn't allow a simple majority to make decisions irrespective of minority interests (i.e. an electoral college).
Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#217Most of the decentralized Twitter alternative systems required AGPL to join. Are there any MIT licensed social protocols?
Protocols aren't licensed. You're totally free to implement an ActivityPub server with any license you like. AGPL is preferred by the community, but it's not mandatory. Honk uses ISC, Smithereen is unlicense, pubgate is BSD-3-Clauses, ….
I appreciate listing some non-AGPL ActivityPub servers! Thanks.
Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#218i 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)
They called it Springtime in Egypt.
Will usa see an American spring? Ala Arab spring? I dont care about that. I am asking the technology. How will it handle such stuff
Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#219Every time I go looking for one of these open alternatives it’s filled with fringe conspiracy theorists, actual racists, etc. Example is LBRY. Bryan Lunduke says he’s switching off YouTube for LBRY, so I go there to check it out. Top trending video is some white supremacist thing why I shouldn’t forget my ancestry. Search for “how to repair furnace”, second result is video how Epstein is alive. Even Lunduke is taking…
Ah, the value of a social network is in what the users bring. If the first users post crap which attracts more users who would post more crap, then that's not the network you want.
Quite important that Facebook's first users are Harvard undergrads, and Twitter recruited "influencers" as their first users, those are the groups that people would want to join.
Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#220PMs: 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.…
Hate to reply to myself, but if a webhost could do the above on a 1-click install managed service with a nice UI, it might be a winning ticket for this, Tumblr but better. An ansible or puppet script. UI make very smooth and nice looking, I think that would be a go-er. Where do I apply for funding (/s)?
I fiddled with a toy project that was basically RSS-powered Tumblr. Seems like now might be a good time to pick it back up