New Social Media Platforms
If posts in a social media app do not have URLs that can be linked to and viewed in an unauthenticated browser, or if there is no way to make a new post from a browser, then that program is not a part of the World Wide Web in any meaningful way.
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Hive Social is exactly this app-only experience. […] Post Dot News also seems absolutely vile.
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Mastodon is kind of a mess right now, and maybe it will not turn out to be what you or I are looking for. But to its credit, interoperability is at its core, rather than being something that the VCs will just take away when it no longer serves their growth or onboarding projections.
A few days ago Phil Gyford launched ooh.directory, a collection of blogs with RSS feeds.
But get over this hurdle and it turns out Mastodon is easy. Well, easyish.
Previously:
- Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub
- Mastodon URIs, Not URLs
- Migrating From Twitter to Mastodon
- The Way Out
Yes, bring back the blogs!