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Why Do Open Source Social Media Platforms Seem to Copy Each Other? Are There Any Truly Innovative Ones? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago

social media platforms seem so similar to each other, because they all implement the same mathematical constructs.

there's users, and there's topics, as the fundamental way to organize your platform.

  • if you focus on users, you end up with something like Xitter or Mastodon where you can follow user accounts.
  • if you follow topics, you either end up with hashtags, or you end up with communities like on lemmy/reddit which focus on one topic each.

There's not a lot of fundamental ways i see that you could change that. If you can think of one, name it.

You could always augment your platform with nice tools, such as image upload, image conversion, link preview, AI tools, and such, but it's just addons around the same basic structure.

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