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‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media (www.forbes.com)

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At a time when established social media platforms are facing criticism and turbulence — from TikTok's temporary shutdown to Meta's withdrawal from fact-checking and growing criticism over political content moderation — a new approach to social media is gaining some attention.

"Help us put control back into the hands of the people!" declares Canadian developer Daniel Supernault, whose open-source platforms aim to provide privacy-focused alternatives to mainstream social media.

Supernault's Kickstarter campaign, launched on Jan. 24, has already exceeded its initial CA$50,000 goal, TechCrunch reports, raising CA$93,022 (approximately US$64,839) as of 11:02 a.m. PT today. The funding will support the development of three platforms within the Fediverse — a decentralized network of interconnected social media services. These platforms include Pixelfed, Loops and Sup, designed as privacy-focused alternatives to Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp, respectively. Each platform rejects traditional venture capital funding and ad-based revenue models in favor of community-driven development.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I've been on ethical alternatives for social media for a while and the one thing missing is just everyone I know

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I've been getting into the fediverse for less than a month, and it seems the biggest barrier for a newcomer like me is settling on a select few out of many clients/apps. One question I think a lot of people migrating want to know is (and I open this up to anyone):

What's the fewest signups needed if we want to enjoy all of the federated replacements to corporate social media? It sounds like each client demands its own account but I'm wondering where/if there's overlap, because…

My Lemmy account already worked on movim before i discovered movim. That's really cool but I don't know 100% how that worked (same community server, I think), and how many other apps/clients offer that.

Movim is XMPP and I don't know how that overlaps with ActivityPub, but I want to better understand so that I know how few accounts are necessary so I can micro and macro blog, share original/repost images videos and music, have group communities, and have a personal page to post things on as opposed to thread/conversations/forum posts and not have to manage ten separate accounts if I can help it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

So get them on there.

"Hey dummies, this here is the place that isn't trying to fuck us, let's move it over."

For me the way bigger issue is clunkiness. The fediverse needs a massive push for UI, usability, intuitiveness. Not having that will turn people away, but part of what will get it to happen is more people showing up and saying "stop making this otherwise objective improvement so janky that I second guess coming here in the first place." Maybe a few will be inspired to help, if they have the skills.

To everybody working on the fediverse in any capacity: thank you. You are building a digital Noah's Ark for the future.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Takes time. Spread the message. I joined Instagram in 2017 by pure FOMO. Let's create FOMO for the Fediverse by speaking about it over and over.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Heads up @[email protected] the creator of these apps refuses to open source the projects stating (Loops):

Not until it's stable

Anyone who's followed any project of any kind knows that this is just a formal way of saying they just won't do it.

Not only is it not truly OSS, but he's a bit of dick. Like weirdly so. Banning people for reverse engineering the API, creating a poll on whether or not ads should be introduced (only to 180 on the matter claiming the poll was a joke but also emphasizing that the poll was in favor of ads)

On the plus side he dislikes Trump, so there's that I guess.

In any case I highly recommend people read this comment and the sources linked:

https://lemm.ee/comment/17804959

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I think the weirdest thing I ever saw him do was discuss meeting with Meta when they were working on Threads, get called out for it so he made a post somehow distancing himself from it and saying something along the lines of, "C'mon, guys; I'd never cozy up to Meta," and then, when Threads started federating, posted a screenshot of being able to see a post from a Threads account from PixelFed and gushing about how incredible this was.

Dude is suspect, for real; glad to see I'm not the only one getting that.

EDIT: just read through what you linked to and wow; that's so much worse than I originally thought. That's an inane degree of unprofessionalism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And the ads... There is a correlation there I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Yvan eht noij!