The First Person Network is not another Facebook or LinkedIn or Twitter/X. It is not a social network; it is not centralized; and it does not belong to any company.
Social Networking Utopia — Matt
In discussing the network topology of social networks — whether centralized like Facebook or federated like ActivityPub — I think the ult...
The year social networks were no longer social | TechCrunch
The term “social network” has become a meaningless association of words. Pair those two words and it becomes a tech category, the equivalent of a single
NorthStar Social: About Us
NorthStar Social is where your public and private social networks converge. The world's first decentralized local-first social network to keep you in control of your data. Your privacy is too precious to leave in the hands of corporations and billionaries who don’t have your best interests in mind. Privacy is built-in. Your public and personal social connections in one app.
Home - Nos: The Human Network
A decentralised mesh of communities and individuals built by and for the people. Nos is social media for humans, not algorithms.
NorthStar Social: People. Privacy. Period.
NorthStar Social is where your public and private social networks converge. The world's first decentralized local-first social network to keep you in control of your data. Your privacy is too precious to leave in the hands of corporations and billionaires who don’t have your best interests in mind. Privacy is built-in. Your public and personal social connections in one app.
Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses | TechCrunch
After 20 months in a closed beta under the working title Facebook at Work, (as we predicted it would the other week) today Facebook is finally
A New Social
Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.
A New Social
Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web:<br>An Online Un-Workshop
Since the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk over three years ago, the Open Social Web has been adopted by an enthusiastic community. People world-wide are building and using open social platforms and open social protocols to better interact with others online.
Facebook Wrestles With the Features It Used to Define Social Networking (Published 2021)
Likes and shares made the social media site what it is. Now, company documents show, it’s struggling to deal with their effects.
SocialWeb.Network - Your Gateway to Decentralized Social
Comprehensive resources for decentralized social web protocols including ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Nostr, and more.
Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been
Why didn't the FOAF standard give us distributed social networking in the 2000s?
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network? Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU. You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/ #OpenWashing
Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…
@mackinac.social, built by @whiteside.io, is an open social web client that's thinking multi-protocol and bridging-first! John's added a *ton* of unique features we've never seen before, so we wanted to outline a few of them in a thread 👇🏼 1/🧵
It's important to understand: social networks are not meant to be one-size-fits all! When Meta (which makes Threads, as well as Facebook and Instagram) creates platforms that have hundreds of millions of users, they do things like enable genocides, where tens of thousands of innocent people die.
Christopher Mims
So I guess either Bluesky becomes a nonprofit or we all start sharing our Threads handles on here…?
