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

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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?

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 hours ago

    social media platforms seem so similar to each other, because they all implement the same mathematical constructs.

    there’s users, and there’s topics, as the fundamental way to organize your platform.

    • if you focus on users, you end up with something like Xitter or Mastodon where you can follow user accounts.
    • if you follow topics, you either end up with hashtags, or you end up with communities like on lemmy/reddit which focus on one topic each.

    There’s not a lot of fundamental ways i see that you could change that. If you can think of one, name it.

    You could always augment your platform with nice tools, such as image upload, image conversion, link preview, AI tools, and such, but it’s just addons around the same basic structure.