A term used to describe decentralized services formally own, operated, and controlled by corporations.
People envision these technologies as free from some of the effects pursuant to large companies like Facebook and Twitter and incentives for how these companies operate.
A social link aggregator akin to reddit.com. I host my own at lemmy.dayl.in, since reddit’s API changes I have exclusively used lemmy.
This instance has since been torn down and I no longer interact with lemmy.
A book tracking social platform akin to goodreads. Currently, I use goodreads to along with this “second brain” to track books, but this might be an interesting alternative.
A barebones ActivityPub server that might work well as an alternative to self hosting a Mastodon instance. Requires the use of separate front-ends, this separation may mean a lower resource cost.
Hosting my own instance now!
A microblogging service akin to twitter. Seems difficult to self-host and I have choice anxiety about signing up for a server hosted by someone else.
A decentralized identity protocol that as I understand it allows one to confirm identity, built on top of OAuth 2.0. Allowing folks to use their own website as an identity provider.
Came across this in the wild on the website of Brennan Brown