Social Media Is Dead: What we call social media networks are anything but. Now that they're beginning to unravel, we should ask what it would take to create social media for people, not advertisers.

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  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
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  • Mastodon

    Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

  • You're describing Fediverse, which Mastodon is built on.

  • sydent

    Sydent: Reference Matrix Identity Server

  • https://matrix.org/ -

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • diaspora*

    A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.

  • PeerTube

    ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser

  • What we should want is for it to be replaced with PeerTube.

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