Really tired of social media for a number of different reasons, but still occasionally feel the urge to share thoughts and pictures with the 2-3 people who follow me on different platforms. A blog might seem like a sensible answer, but that's always overwhelming and never holds my interest long. Piecing together 140 characters that no one will read is a lot more appealing than writing a couple thousand words that no one will read.
So, I built this. It doesn't look like much, but it's got a pretty nifty backend (if I do say so myself) that makes it more or less a clone/amalgam of all the major social media websites. And since I host it, I have full and total control over every video, photo, or note I post.
I have a long-term vision of getting the code for it tidied up enough to be able to have other people run it on their own websites, and allow said websites the ability to connect with other websites on the same platform so that there could potentially be a traditional social-media-esque feed.
Which basically means that a random visitor to your website just sees your posts, but when you, the owner of the website, visit it, you see your posts intermingled with the latest posts from websites you follow, and have all of the usual social media methods for interaction (liking/commenting). But in a completely decentralized system.
Just an idea, and I'll probably get bored of it before I get far, but in the meantime, at least I have an easy way to store thoughts and memories outside of Facebook/Instagram/Twitter.
So, I built this. It doesn't look like much, but it's got a pretty nifty backend (if I do say so myself) that makes it more or less a clone/amalgam of all the major social media websites. And since I host it, I have full and total control over every video, photo, or note I post.
I have a long-term vision of getting the code for it tidied up enough to be able to have other people run it on their own websites, and allow said websites the ability to connect with other websites on the same platform so that there could potentially be a traditional social-media-esque feed.
Which basically means that a random visitor to your website just sees your posts, but when you, the owner of the website, visit it, you see your posts intermingled with the latest posts from websites you follow, and have all of the usual social media methods for interaction (liking/commenting). But in a completely decentralized system.
Just an idea, and I'll probably get bored of it before I get far, but in the meantime, at least I have an easy way to store thoughts and memories outside of Facebook/Instagram/Twitter.