1. @rabble - rabble.nz - nos.social - Sept 28th 2023
Social Media
Beyond Corporate Platforms

2. Workshop Outline
Beyond Corporate Social media
Know our history
A bit of the twitter story
Usenet vs AOL
Blogs
Mastodon & The Fediverse
Alternatives like Bluesky & Nostr

3. History of Social Media
From the 60's until today

4. One Forum For Everybody
Usenet & NNPT

5. One Forum For Everybody

9. Commercial Internet

12. News Reader Apps

13. RSS Feed Format

14. Podcasting

15. Podcasting is RSS

16. Podcasts

17. Odeo

18. Odeo

19. iTunes Podcasts

20. Oh Shit

21. Hackathon

22. Hackathon

23. Hackathon

24. Twitter

25. Friend Stalker

26. Bicycle Messenger Dispatch

27. TxtMob

28. Twitter Was Simple

29. Twitter was social RSS

30. Information Overload

31. Social Media

32. Social Media Companies

33. Corporate Control?

34. Open Resistance

35. Open Resistance

36. Open Social

37. ActivityStreams

38. Mashups

39. ActivityPub

40. The Fediverse

41. ActivityPub
Atom
ActivityStreams
Fediverse & Mastodon
1999
2003
2007
2012
2017
RSS

42. Mastodon

43. Open Lost

44. Centralization Won

45. Algorithms Won

46. Influencers

47. Big Business

48. Power Corrupts

51. Social Protocols

52. Social Protocols
5Degrees
activityPub
at_protocol
aether
akasha
Beluga
Blogracy
bonfire
bushbaby
bwitter
Cachet
capsule
cohost
Conversely
Cuckoo
cwtch
cztn
deso
diaspora
DiDuSoNet
discord
display
dnsp
dokie
earthstar
element
(matrix)
eXO
Farcaster
Flux
gnusocial
gun
hives
humm.earth
HorNet
HPOSN
humhub
iris/lens
junto
Kazm
Lens
libresocial
Litter
LotusNet
Megaphone
MeWe(dnsp)
minds
mirror
moderator
movim
nostr
Odysee
p2panda
PAC’nPOST
peergos
PESCA
phaver
pixelfed
Porkut/My3
resonate
Safebook
satelite
Secure
Scuttlebutt
SDHT
SEDOSN
spritely
sproutable
status.im
steemit
subsocial
SuperNova
tent
textile.io
tribel
trustchain
Twister
Vegas
VegaNet
vero
Voice
WebP2P
wip2p
yarn
zot

53. Self-Certifying
Social Protocols

54. Protocols with Servers
NFT names
fi
les
and logs stored
in IPFS
Uses DIDs, relay servers,
Signed logs,
dns for veri
fi
cation
NFT names,
relay servers,
signed logs
Signed logs & relays,
ActivityStream (AP)
message types
Lens at_protocol
ChatterNet
Farcaster
ActivityPub
Protocols
Mastodon
Decentralized
GraphDB
Gun Protocol

55. Pure P2P Protocols
Gossip protocol
O
ffl
ine/local
fi
rst,
append only
Custom RPC
SSB rebuild with
Standards - GPRC & MLS
Merkel trees with
Flexible collaborative
Social documents
Super privacy focused
Messaging & sharing
Scuttlebutt
Earthstar
P2Panda
cwtch
Made by ActivityPub
Creator - distributed
Agents

56. Crypto Currency Protocols
Polkadot Everything
Lots of funding
Little use.
DAP's and pay to post
......
Social media
Custom token
nft platform
Tokens, payments...
Etc...
DSNP
Voice
Status.IM
Minds

57. Other Corporate Platforms
Twitter clone Twitter clone with groups
Black owned
Heavy moderation
Center-left
News focused
Heavy moderation
pebble.is
Sproutible
Tribel
post.news
Retro design
Retro ideas
cohost.org
Owned by meta
Instagram algorithms
Lots of users
threads.net

58. Twitter & IG Mastodon Nostr & Bluesky
Centralized systems like
Twitter and Instagram are
vertically integrated, many
businesses exist, but within
one corporation.
Mastodon and the fediverse
are open but they work like a
network of city states. Each with
their own rules making it hard for
for things to go viral or to build
secondary services like donation
features.
Nostr is an open interoperable
network with relay servers as
middleware. When you publish
on to nostr, users can read and
share content via dozens of
di
ff
erent compatible apps.
Network Models
Crypto
Blockchain projects
manage update by
charging users through
crypto currency which you
must pay to use the
system

59. Why Protocols?
Platforms are like a shopping mall, it feels public but
it's actually a private space for commerce.
Open Protocols are a commons. A public space thats
under shared goverance.

60. Elinor Ostrom's
Commons

61. 1. Define clear group boundaries.
2. Match rules governing use of common goods to local needs and conditions.
3. Ensure that those affected by the rules can participate in modifying the rules.
4. Make sure the rule-making rights of community members are respected by outside
authorities.
5. Develop a system, carried out by community members, for monitoring members’ behavior.
6. Use graduated sanctions for rule violators.
7. Provide accessible, low-cost means for dispute resolution.
8. Build responsibility for governing the common resource in nested tiers from the lowest
level up to the entire interconnected system.
8 Principles for Managing a Commons

62. Options?
Setup Fediverse Server like Mastodon
Setup identities (accounts) on Nostr & Bluesky
Build an audience with direct connection?

63. Fediverse
* Lots of kinds of social media
* Mostly doesn't reuse friends &
content
* Opposed to network effect &
search

64. Bluesky
Independent public benefit corp
Funded by but not connected to twitter
Built centralized first, will open up
Facing serious conflict between
community and team building it

65. Nostr

66. Nostr Meetup App

67. Q&A App

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