So I'm taking part in a homebrewed experiment: a bespoke social network casting a decidedly small net.

My hope is that it fosters a sense of community that much of the internet has lost after it was commoditized. (Think GeoCities with the gifs or BBS's without a dial tone.)

Inspired by Darius Kazemi's work here: https://runyourown.social/

#runyourownsocial #community #mastodon

CC: @smallcircles

> People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
>
> Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.
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> By Ian Bogost

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/fix-facebook-making-it-more-like-google/620456/

This one is also very interesting: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/

#RunYourOwnSocial #PeopleVerse

Oh right, how could I forget.

Feuds mean less when the instances are small (<Dunbar). That was what I was working towards all this time. Doh!

Related: https://runyourown.social/

#SmallTech #SmallInstances #RunYourOwnSocial