5d ago

I only use real decentralised social media

The unicorn is the Org Mode logo, for those unaware.

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This is real, btw.
You can follow me on Org-social here: https://flamingos-cant.uk/social.org
- You are ridiculous, and I love that for you.
The official client is an emacs package, interesting! These parts from the readme made me chuckle:
To consume and read other users' feeds, you can read them manually, use a script, or a client.
Because of the decentralised nature it is very difficult to discover new users.
- T_T
  WHY DOES EMACS HAVE A EXTENSION FOR FUCKING EVERYTHING?!
  It's meant to be a text editor. That's it.
  
  Yes... but also WordPress is supposed to be a blogging platform, and now it powers like half the web.
  People hack around the arbitrary limitations of software all the time!
I'm getting all my friends into Meshtastic, a system of mesh networked packet radios that can be very cheap and do not require a HAM license.
A few of us will be trying out then forking a BBS running on an RPi connected to a radio node. Though that will technically be less decentralized, it will be more social media like.
- Meanwhile I can't get people to switch to matrix(element) from whatsapp...
Matrix has at least 3 times as many users as bluesky. And most servers arent even publishing their users counts. But arguably most people arent using matrix as a social media platform. I wouldnt count discord as traditional social media either.

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