Where do we go if we are unhappy with corporate social media?

Corporate Social Media Controversies

• Cambridge Analytica and political manipulation
• Disinformation
• Addiction(?)
• #Gamergate and harassment of women, people of color
• Elon Musk
• AI slop

Activists Making Alternatives

Since the 2000s, activists have been making alternatives to corporate social media.

Activists Making Alternatives

• diaspora*
• GNU social
• Twister
• Galaxy
• Lorea

But what happens when trolls show up?

In addition to the technical protocol connecting the fediverse, there is a social protocol.

"Active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia: Users must have the confidence that they are joining a safe space, free from white supremacy, anti-semitism and transphobia of other platforms."

What happens when for-profit corporations show up?

The covenantal fediverse is a network of 10s of thousands of autonomous, community-run, self-governed, not-for-profit social media sites that are connected via both a technical protocol as well as a thin set of shared ethical values.