RealSocial
In 2025 it looks straightforward to work towards a RealSocial ecosystem:
nostr
nostr enables any developer to build software and then any user can choose whether to use that software, and there is no need to ask permission or to get 1000s of users for it to be useful
Example: for lightfoot we'll start a (probably client-side only web) app, that is adjacent to trustroots.. so it does trustroots nip5, but this is not a requirement. We can probably quickly get ~100 people interested in the idea. In this case I'm actually "inside" trustroots and nostr isn't essential, but it can be a nice example, to inspire other devs/groups to do similar things.
(r)evolutionize social apps =
Nostr client-side web apps are super forkable, so I see a potential pattern here similar to how the wiki idea changed encyclopedia and knowledge bases... this can change the idea how people think about software and more specifically social apps. (Ideally, while also killing the dominance of meta, X and other centralized corporate bullshit...)
nostroots
With trustroots we have 130k+ users who are fundamentally interested in RealSocial apps.
2008
RealSocial.org
Social networks are hot. MySpace, Facebook. Google recently wanted to open the market with its OpenSocial. Which made me think, are these efforts really social? Is Facebook a real social network? I think not
So I grabbed realsocial.org which is currently just an alias. But I will put up a wiki with my (and your?) ideas about what real social networks are. I’m thinking of distinguishing Real Social and real social networks.
I’d consider CouchSurfing, BookCrossing, and all current ride share websites that I’m aware of, as real social networks. They lead to real life connections or actual forms of exchange, with less time spent offline than online.
I could think of three that would fit my criteria for being Real Social: BeWelcome, [2006/7, pre-shitcoin] Ripple and Hitchwiki. The capitalization comes from the way the networks, its organization and the software is developed.
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2008: "Social networks are hot. MySpace, Facebook. Google recently wanted to open the market with its OpenSocial. Which made me think, are these efforts really social? Is Facebook a real social network? I think not
So I grabbed realsocial.org which is currently just an alias. But I will put up a wiki with my (and your?) ideas about what real social networks are. I’m thinking of distinguishing Real Social and real social networks."
