I love to see the diversity of software increase. Once we clone all the major ones we can start innovating to the point where you have something completely new and bespoke and that will be really exciting
This quote has me reflecting on the diversity of software, especially in the realm of open source social media platforms. It seems like many of them are just clones of popular ones, lacking true innovation. Why is this the case? Are there any open source social media platforms that are genuinely innovative and offer something unique?
You can describe all social media as people posting stuff then other people subscribing to see that stuff either by person, by topic or indirectly by what other stuff you do (via recommendation algorithms) and commenting or voting on it.
If something doesn’t meet that description it’s not really social media.
Given that, there’s only really a finite number of ways you can display content with votes and comments.