Decentralized social media
Conclusion
Despite the great ideas behind the Fediverse's services and the simplicity and elegance it provides application programmers, a harsh truth is that a social media service is only as good as the people who use it. Who hasn't said to themselves "This is rubbish, but I can't leave because all these people I need to keep in touch with are here" when browsing through Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn? The fact is that the time when a social media platform could attract new users on the merits of its features has long gone.
However, the Fediverse has many things going for it – not least of which is that you can agglomerate all the users as one audience even though each is using a different service – and that may give it a fighting chance.
Infos
- Fediverse: https://fediverse.party/
- diaspora*: https://diasporafoundation.org/
- Identi.ca: https://identi.ca/
- pump.io: http://pump.io/
- ActivityPub: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
- Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.org/
- Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/
- Funkwhale: https://funkwhale.audio
- Hubzilla: https://zotlabs.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project
- Fedilab: https://fedilab.app/
- Mastodon.py: https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py
- Mastodon.py documentation: https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
- status(): https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#reading-data-statuses
- toot dictionary: https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#toot-dicts
- account dictionary: https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#user-dicts
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