At a time when established social media platforms are facing criticism and turbulence — from TikTok's temporary shutdown to Meta's withdrawal from fact-checking and growing criticism over political content moderation — a new approach to social media is gaining some attention.

"Help us put control back into the hands of the people!" declares Canadian developer Daniel Supernault, whose open-source platforms aim to provide privacy-focused alternatives to mainstream social media.

Supernault's Kickstarter campaign, launched on Jan. 24, has already exceeded its initial CA$50,000 goal, TechCrunch reports, raising CA$93,022 (approximately US$64,839) as of 11:02 a.m. PT today. The funding will support the development of three platforms within the Fediverse — a decentralized network of interconnected social media services. These platforms include Pixelfed, Loops and Sup, designed as privacy-focused alternatives to Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp, respectively. Each platform rejects traditional venture capital funding and ad-based revenue models in favor of community-driven development.

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[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Sup

Signal is better as a centralized alternative and Matrix is better as a decentralized alternative. We don't need another messenger.

[–] orosus@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The alternatives already exist and they are build on Nostr and it has different apps/clients to interact with that protocol. For example Olas is a Instagram-like and tik-tok-like app, and there are also many twitter-like or mastodon-like apps such as Amethyst or Damus

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