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‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media

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‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media
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Forbes: ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media
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‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media
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  • Crucially, users also retain the ability to migrate to different servers without losing their followers, which is a stark contrast to traditional platforms, where leaving means starting over and building up a following from scratch. This is a particularly crucial feature for influencers and content creators, who were recently faced with losing millions of followers during the recent TikTok blackout.

    Is this actually implemented anywhere?

  • As always, Forbes only wants to profile the most narcissistic people.

    Daniel Supernault lists all his apps as developed by... Dan Supernault. Despite the fact that there's plenty of other people's fingers all over the Pixelfed github. Hey Dan, we can all see this. Maybe you shouldn't take all the credit for yourself, yeah?

    Further, Supernault left moderation as a backseat activity to fast growth of Pixelfed, leading to a less than stellar user experience since the moderation was weak to nonexistent.

    So let's see...

    1. Thinks growth matters more than a cohesive community.
    2. Labels things that involved the labor of lots of different people as though all the work was done by Daniel Supernault.
    3. He literally named one of the apps after him fucking self. Sup, the WhatsApp wannabe, and I'm really skeptical of the security bona fides here. Things like Matrix, Signal, XMPP and so on already exist but Supernault wants to re-invent the wheel again.
    4. Didn't take moderation duties seriously instead focusing on explosive growth just like all the corporate apps.

    I'm just waiting for number 5 to be this motherfucker pulling a Matt Mullenweg and fracturing the communities because he thinks he owns them.

    Just because it's Open Source doesn't make it an overall good, especially when the people involved seemingly just want to use the Open Source community to launch their own careers and hope and dreams and fuck all the little people who helped. Sounds pretty corporate to me. See also: Kagi search

    • I'm not sure your comment accurately or fairly represents things.

      Narcissism is genuine psychological disorder. Your comment doesn't explain how he would be one of "the most narcissistic people."

      However, you genuinely made me curious about how many people have been contributing and by how much, so I looked it up on GitHub as you mentioned. There have been 159 contributors. The second most being 210 commits. Dan is the number one contributor at over 10,000 commits!

      I can't know his motivations, only what he shares publicly. I don't follow PixelFed development closely. I don't know why he's trying to do so much at once. And I honestly thought Sup was short for Whatsup.

      What I do know is what it's like to slave for thousands of hours, writing millions of lines of code, trying to manage multiple projects with numerous hands in it, ridiculous deadlines, and with customers and users quick to criticize without truly understanding everything entailed in such projects.

      Perhaps I'm honestly ignorant and he really is someone to loath. So far though, PixelFed has been a gem that connects me with a lot of beauty. I personally know loathsome humans. There's plenty more in the news daily.

      This Forbes article though? It's doing something really good for the Fediverse. It's highlighting the need for funding projects like these. And, yeah, it mentions Dan because he's the one who got these projects of the ground and has done nearly all the bleeding and sweating for it.

      I get the concerns and fears, but I'm not sure there is reason think we're there yet.

      I guess I'm just grateful.

  • Kind of a disappointing read when 2 out of the 3 are not actually services you can use yet.

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