Does federated count? There is the opensource project here:
https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt
And a public instance at: http://twtxt.net/
Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
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#62Forget Twitter alternatives. How about a social network that mirrors real world social interactions? Only adding people you actually know. Keeping conversations private. Encryption to prevent censorship. What is the social media equivalent of signal?
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#63The network effects are irreplaceable, unfortunately.
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#64i remember once peepeth[0] was trending in the ethereum ecosystem. There used to be something called tsu[1] a few years ago, that paid fiat for its users.
[0] https://peepeth.com/welcome [1] https://www.vox.com/2014/10/21/11632070/new-social-network-t...
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#65Forget Twitter alternatives. How about a social network that mirrors real world social interactions? Only adding people you actually know. Keeping conversations private. Encryption to prevent censorship. What is the social media equivalent of signal?
This is already how people use social media like Instagram and features like Stories only viewable to your list of special friends. It’s pretty old hat by now.
I use Facebook and Stories every day (Stories seem lame but are too useful for, say, meeting women, to dismiss) but if you went to my profile you’d think I haven’t used Facebook in seven years.
In case you don’t know, the Stories system replicated on every social media platform including Youtube and Twitter most recently lets you post ephemeral images/video/text and anyone who responds to it is sending a private 1:1 message.
It’s a surprisingly healthy direction away from the awful default public posts with public comments and likes. It’s liberating to post stuff as a story where nobody can know if 0 or 100 of your friends engaged with it.
Just throwing this out there since most HNers aren’t really hip with how social media is used these days.
In others words, people are on Twitter quibbling in public because, like HN arguments, we actually like doing it. Not because there aren’t alternatives.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
GNU Social is exactly how I imagined it to be.
That prompted me to imagine what a parody of a GNU-style Twitter would look like, and yes, the connection works from the opposite direction.
Tilable interface, requires days to set it up, tweet with i "Hello World!" t, native vim keymap support, and hard to quit.
Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#67Part 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?).
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, `@realDonaldTrump` was suspended at least from Mastodon.social . How many instances left? How many also suspended `@realDonaldTrump`?
He can afford his own instance which will never block him. Let's not pretend he's being stopped from running an independent social broadcast. It doesn't matter how many instances block him - nobody can be forced to listen to him.
> He can afford his own instance which will never block him.
Yeah, something like Hillary Clinton's private email server, right?
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#69This likely isn't what the op had in mind, but if you're open to it, the best alternative to both reading and authoring on Twitter is to get up from your desk and exercise outside for 10 or 15 minutes. If you see other people, start a friendly, civil conversation. The skills you develop once you get the hang of doing this, and the information you'll stumble upon outclass Twitter, which is merely an interaction betwee…
This is what op practices every day :) And thank you for posting this reminder here.
Re: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
#70Part 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…
Speaking of GNU social, I have always thought that GNU was quite possibly the worst name to use for the project, simply because nobody knows how to pronounce it, and maybe if you do know how to pronounce it, someone else might pronounce it completely differently, so it you end up pronouncing it in two (or more!) ways until the person you're talking to knows what you're talking about. Is it 'new'? Or 'nyew'? I've also heard 'geh-new' and 'G-new'. 'new' is probably the easiest to say and is technically correct, but it is also an extremely ubiquitous adjective which can be placed next to literally any noun, and therefore a terrible way to brand something.
And I think that is the primary reason why GNU/Linux never caught on and everybody just called it Linux. "What OS do you use?" "GNU/Linux" "Wait, I didn't know there was a New Linux!".