Social Media

Referenced by: Commune, Fediverse

Traditional social media

• Not Decentralized
  • Can't choose your own rules, sorting methods, data queries, etc.
• Overrun by scams and ads and influencers

Federated Social Media

• Partially Decentralized
  • Self hosting is too hard for everyone to do
  • Still subject to instance's moderation, limitations, etc.
• Users need to pick an instance, associating their identity with one specific group
  • People belong to many groups
  • The person is permanently associated with that one group
  • You have to pick before getting a "trial period" to ensure you actually like that group/instance

My take on an ideal social media Fedi v2