 I can’t stop thinking about building an ActivityPub-based social network, that would implement very niche and non-standard features. I find it a bit problematic, that the whole pitch of many Fediverse services is ‘X but open-source and federated’. Pixelfed is a better Insta, Friends a is a better Facebook, Masto is a better Twitter, etc. I want to conceive a social network, that doesn’t rely on the existing ideas of social networks. But I also have no new ideas 🤔 5 comments
Like, for example, the ‘Circles’ of Google+. It was pretty new for that time, and it still isn’t present in the modern day social networks. Is it because the idea is not that good? Or is it because Google+ was a failure from day 1, and nobody had gotten a taste of it? As for all my unfinished projects, I have come up with a name before I’ve even considered starting to work on them. This new social network engine would be called Tint, which is a recursive acronym for ‘Tint Is Not Twitter’. If you ever create something like this, feel free to use the name :D  @kytta I think it was because circles were backwards. When you follow me on G+ I had to guess which circle to put you in. Instead, G+ should have let me publish circles (work, fun, sports, politics) and let you decide which one to follow.  |
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@kytta Not just you, I've been wondering the same. I can imagine we're not the only ones, too :)