What This Project is All About
My first post to this account was detailing what all I hoped to achieve but it was written as, well, a post and that can be hard to quickly tell what the contents are, for many people.
So, for anyone who may have questions, I hope, with Swanye, to create social media which
will never have ad.s
will always be available as a free option, never requiring that you pay for it
will absolutely never collect and sell your data; you will never be the product
will prioritize disability accessibility
is always open-source
requires any who use the source code to make accessible their version as open-source and viewable by anyone
will have tools that allow any instance of the software that you run to administrate and set the rules for your community
will never use an algorithm to modify the order of posts on your dash or try to shoehorn in people you don’t follow into your dash
things like recommendations of people to follow based on hashtags or likes will have an option to turn off or opt-out
any algorithms for such things will be transparent and readable since the project is open-source
namely, attempts to put control of your online presence and your data back into better control of you
I may edit this if I think I’ve forgotten any; but these are definitely the reasons I started making this (and felt there was a need to make it).
There’s absolutely no reason everything you interact with online should be a product with decisions about what happens with your interacts left up to others; the internet – and social media – was supposed to be a way for people to better be able to make connections with other people about the things they love or are passionate about and it was what excited me about the Internet, originally.
I want some of that back; and I think that federated, open-source software can do that.
I always assume that people will just inquire, if curious about something, and that, if I was unclear or confusing in my first post of this account (or this post, right here), people would just inquire about Swanye.
But that can be daunting, especially if you don’t quite understand what the thing is, to begin with.
So, hopefully, this drills right to the heart of what I think Swanye can do; and, if any of that sounds interesting to you, absolutely feel free to ask about it.
Part of this account is not only to detail the features that’re being developed but to answer any questions or possible hopes for an improved Tumblr anyone might have.
I don’t think corporations, usually, actually serve us a product which actually best serves us; so…what if we just cut the corporations out of our social media, entirely?
