A Proton Social Media Platform
Having an uncensored platform to express ideas would be a game changer in the world of social media. X, (formerly "Twitter"), as well as Gab, Truth Social, Parler, et. al., have moderators who decide what is acceptable. This is NOT free speech. What one person (or moderator), finds offensive, another may find humorous or innocuous or blustering rhetoric. Freedom to express ideas and opinions, even ones that some might find offensive, (i.e. war, race, gender, ethnicity, etc.,) or anything else that might hurt someone's feelings should be absolute. Having filters in place where users can choose whether or not to see certain topics in their feeds would be a way to protect the feelings of users who believe that free speech should exclude anything that the individual considers offensive. When any rules are in place, someone somewhere is having their right to speak freely restricted or prohibited. While most individuals have something that they find offensive, (for me, crossing the line would be anything to do with promoting or advocating child/elderly/animal abuse, human trafficking, stalking, to name a few), protecting everyone's feelings all the time is impossible and impractical. While the idea of an uncensored social media platform will definitely generate push-back, "Free Speech" is just that; FREE. Yes, there will be attention-seeking individuals and trolls that will post content designed solely to illicit a response, it's not my place (or anyone else's), to censor them. For content that others find outlandish, inappropriate or even garish, the solution is simple; don't engage with them. The community as a whole will decide what it finds offensive and that alone will serve as its own form of censorship.
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Uservoice67
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Btw there are like a lot of open source projects in that dirrection alr maybe you should look at thouse and find your bubble there
Mastodon — Most popular federated microblogging platform
Lemmy — Growing Reddit alternative with active communities
Pixelfed — Popular Instagram alternative
Discourse — Widely used modern forum software
WordPress (self-hosted) — Most deployed blogging/CMS platform
Matrix/Element — Large federated messaging network
PeerTube — Established decentralized video platform
Friendica — Established Facebook alternative
Ghost — Popular modern blogging platform
Nextcloud — Widely used self-hosted cloud storage with social features
Rocket.Chat — Popular team communication platform
Mattermost — Active Slack alternative community
Diaspora — Early decentralized social network (declining usage)
Misskey — Growing Japanese microblogging platform
Funkwhale — Music/audio sharing community
Peertube instances — Various community-run servers
Zulip — Niche but active team messaging platform
Jami (GNU Ring) — Decentralized messaging (smaller user base)
Pleroma — Lightweight Mastodon alternative (niche)
Hubzilla — Decentralized identity and social (small community)
Flarum — Growing lightweight forum platform
WriteFreely — Federated blogging (small but growing)
NodeBB — Active forum software community
Akkoma — Pleroma fork (emerging)
Firefish — Misskey fork (growing)
BigBlueButton — Used in education/enterprise
Briar — Privacy-focused messaging (niche/activist community)
Session — Privacy messenger (moderate following)
BookWyrm — Literary community (niche but active)
Mobilizon — Event planning (smaller community)
Kbin — Newer Reddit alternative (emerging)
Calckey — Misskey fork (small)
Jitsi — Video conferencing (enterprise use)
Elgg — Community platform (legacy/declining)
Pligg — Social news aggregator (legacy)
GNU Social — Early microblogging (declining)
Gotosocial — Minimal ActivityPub server (experimental)
Sharkey — Misskey fork (small)
Honeycomb — Experimental platform
Phlyper — Niche microblogging
Glitch Social — Mastodon fork (small community)
Hometown — Mastodon fork (small but dedicated)
Aardwolf — In development/minimal users
Socialhome — Experimental (minimal activity)
Tiki Wiki — Wiki with social features (legacy)
Oxwall — Social network software (declining)
Dolphin — Social networking (legacy/declining)
Humhub — Community platform (niche enterprise)
Microblog.pub — Single-user microblogging (very small)
Honk — Minimal ActivityPub server (very small)
Lychee — Photo management (small user base)
Piwigo — Photo gallery (legacy/small)
Immich — New photo backup platform (emerging)
Photoprism — AI photo library (growing niche)
Plume — Federated blogging (minimal activity)
Zap — Protocol/platform (experimental)
OneSocial — Community platform (legacy)
Socloz — Social network for groups (minimal)
Newscoop — Journalism platform (legacy/declining)
Vanilla Forums — Forum software (legacy)
SMF — Classic forum (legacy)
phpBB — Classic forum (legacy/declining)
Bridgy Fed — Protocol bridge (technical/niche)
LibreFlix — Video learning (very small)
OpenHatch — Developer community (niche/small)
MyBB — Forum software (legacy/small) -
Uservoice67
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Difficult Problem, but proton adding one more name to a list of alternative social media wouldn't really solve your problem would it? Then lets go further: What would solve your Problem? You want freedom of expression, democracy etc? yea we all do but thats work. And everyone has to contribute to it, ofc it is easier to sit back and relax and use Mac/Windows 11 and Facebook where everything is decided for you, but those are ****/annoying as ****, so take action and decide for yourself where you want to stand choose your own operating system, your own social media / forum etc
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Walter Stolz
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Isnt Matrix alr trying that?