Exploring Decentralized Social Media
The Internet Archive hosted the DWeb SF Meetup on January 20th, 2020. The blog post titled ‘Our Social Media is Broken. Is Decentralization the Fix?’ has a great summary with links to all of the people and resources mentioned in the video below.
It start’s by mentioning Jack Dorsey and Twitter’s Bluesky project.
Jay Graber kicked off the event:
Graber helped us understand the broad categories of what’s out there: federated protocols such as ActivityPub and Matrix; peer-to-peer protocols such as Scuttlebutt, and social media apps that utilize blockchain in some way for monetization, provenance or storage. What was clear from Graber’s talk was that she had tested and used dozens of tools, from Mastodon to Iris, Martti Malmi’s new P-2-P social app and she deftly laid out the pros and cons of each.