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Building alternative social media

[[Alternative social media]].

As per Anarchist Cybernetics

There’s a chapter called exactly this, "Building Alternative Social Media" in [[Anarchist Cybernetics]] on this.

With a list of desirable features:

  • Forums for conversation
  • Direct messaging
  • Sharing content with meme/viral potential
  • News feed with curated and user-generated content
  • Public relations function
  • Linking alternative and mainstream platforms
  • Central resource hub
  • Noise and overload filters
  • Overuse addiction warning system
  • General assembly function
  • Pad function
  • Memory / narrative
  • File sharing and knowledge exchange
  • Procrastination
  • Online decision making embedded in offline structures
  • Sections open to non-members
  • Architecture for [[collective autonomy]]
  • Flexible engagement options
  • Responsibility and commitment
  • Privacy, security and data
  • Easy backup of information

I like this list. Is it solely social media though? What explicitly is [[social media]]?

Anyway, I would probably advocate to attain the above in a patterny / Unixy way I feel. i.e. bridge and glue together the different pieces, avoid a behemoth platform.

I suppose a behemoth matters less if it’s libre. But it feels like the pieces are already there to glue together, so don’t reinvent the wheel.

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