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?
technically it’s not part of any definition of “social media”, but it’s so ubiquitous that pretty much every well-known social media platform has it. this thing is a recommendation algorithm that acts on its own filters and aggregates items onto a homepage; usenet only had “filtering” by rooms. and yes, this definition would include reddit with its algorithm. i’m still unfortunately unable to find what you’re referring to that would be such an algorithm.
though since the beginning this has been a bit of a tangent—i mentioned disregarding that part of facebook’s innovations since it would be an unfair comparison. what did you mean when you said i was, well to put it a much harsher way than what you actually said but in the only way i can succintly summarize it after putting down this overly long disclaimer, dismissive of innovations?
You opened with “I mean mbin is just Reddit + Twitter” which is just ridiculous. However important the precise nature of the algorithms used to generate users’ feeds might be (mine shows only things I follow and is sorted by “new” most of the time), such qualities as being decentralized, standards-based, openly interoperable, and advertising-free are more so.
I was arguing against “Mbin is not quite like anything else”. assuming Lemmy is a copy of Reddit, Mbin is a copy of (Reddit + Twitter). to be more precise I can also say it’s just Lemmy + Mastodon.
Yeah, that first assumption is where you went wrong.