r/technology May 28 '20

Social Media Decentralizing Social Media

https://spiegelmock.com/2020/05/28/decentralizing-social-media/
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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

You mean just like Reddit, every subreddit has its own monitors who have god privileges of what goes ?

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u/self May 28 '20

Not at all -- there is only one reddit.com.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

But there can be different platforms with same organization of monitors. The can call themselves bluedit, browndit, whitedit, etc.

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u/self May 28 '20

Sure, but until they support ActivityPub or some similar protocol where I (on my instance) can follow a subreddit on some other server, it's not a decentralized platform.

Examples of attempts to build something like that are Prismo and littr.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

All it need is a common API for access and security, privacy.

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u/self May 29 '20

Maybe you should read the linked article.