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?
What? The fediverse is the only place you will find a variety of social media implementations all cooperating while also innovating in unique ways. There are dozens of different projects on the network, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. There’s nothing else that compares to it when it comes to diversity of software.
For example, it may interest you to learn that I am not using lemmy right now.
How is the fediverse software innovating? Lemmy feels just like Reddit and Mastodon seems like Twitter but it doesn’t have algorithms so in practice it feels more like a chat.
Saying that lemmy is just a copy of reddit is like saying that reddit is just a copy of Usenet. There are fundamental differences, but they have some obvious things in common. Even if mastodon is just twitter to you, then what exactly do you think misskey is? I’m posting from mbin here which is not quite like anything else.
I mean mbin is just Reddit + Twitter
Sure, sure, and Facebook is just Geocities + phpBB + surveillance capitalism. Nothing is new since 1995.
Facebook is not at all comparable to Geocities, displays the contents of every thread of a “section”, and then invented Social Media by adding Feeds. Even disregarding the lattes, I don’t see how Mbin is at all comparable.
“invented Social Media” — bwahahahaha. You can’t actually be serious? I was a social media addict since 1989.
No, you’re probably thinking of Social Networks. I’m talking about an algorithmically-filtered homepage of recent updates anywhere, creating your filter bubble.
Your odd capitalized notion of “Social Networks” seems like a typical LLM hallucination, but on the chance that you’re human and came up with it yourself, I suggest starting by reading up on the history of Usenet in enough detail that you understand how Kibo would be relevant to that statement.
That’s not to say that Facebook didn’t do anything novel. Their algorithms for matching up advertisers with their targets are well beyond what we had in the old days.
but there is not only lemmy and mastodon
here you can find probably all relevant ones: https://github.com/emilebosch/awesome-fediverse