Just to kill some time I've been eying what social platforms exists today. I'm just puzzled why there are so many different projects/platforms/protocols when they all have pretty much the same functionality, similar user interfaces and dozens of clients doing the same thing. Mastodon, Diaspora, Retroshare, Friendica, Matrix ... you name it.Freedom of choice is good for ya and shit, but too many similar platforms just spreads the potential user base. Why the devs of these can not collaborate and form a true and credible competitor to big corporate platforms?
>>109297888Nice trips. Umigalaxy seems interesting as it's one of the few rare sites that allow you to upload webp images and not convert them to something else or lower their quality.I doubt communism works with stuff like this because of how niche each place is, or at least tries to be. Like people go on twatter because they have the memory of a goldfish.
Start using them and you'll quickly understand why. Nobody wants to use the thing with all the problems. So they make a new thing then new problems inherent to its design arise.The hard truth that nobody wants to hear is that centralized platforms work better because someone has to be the moderator/bad guy. Blaming bad decisions on faceless corporations is a healthy bonding exercise that brings users together. These decisions and other related scandals coming from within your own community fractures it. You're not going to be able to get a good open source alternate to anything more complicated than a Discord server because of this. I watched it play out so many times.
>>109297973Sure yes, it makes sense. I remember old forums, their dickhead mods and wars between them.
>>109297888It’s quite simple. All social media platforms, whether X, Mastodon, Reddit, etc. are dictatorships. Every dictatorship has its own ideology. Everyone needs their own echo chamber for their particular ideology. That’s all there is to it.
>>109297973>The hard truth that nobody wants to hear is that centralized platforms work better because someone has to be the moderator/bad guy.They are all centralized. In reality, even the relevant "decentralized" platforms are completely centralized. The myth of decentralization is just a marketing gimmick.
>>109297888>when they all have pretty much the same functionalityThis is because everyone is retarded. Both developers and potential users.
>>1092978884chan is a social media platform, like it or not.
>>109297973He’s right you know
>>109297888hi digu. didn't know you post here
>>109300372but who watches the watchmen?
>>109300829Different kind of watchman and so on to infinitum
>>109298315The point is moderation, and most of these platforms might be centralised but there’s no real mods
>>109300981seems bureaucratic :(
