Strypey@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz: Now having given these software projects as examples, I want to make it clear I'm describing use patterns, either of which can be applied to any software.<br><br>After decades of blogging, I can't help thinking of what I do on Mastodon as publishing. I link to my old posts and dig through them to find stuff, just like I do on my blogs. Conversely someone could use PeerTube to do video blogging, auto-deleting their old posts after a while like people do with their micro-posting accounts.<br><br>(5/?)

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Strypey@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz (2026-04-15 06:55:31)
I've noticed that mainstream use of "social media" is mostly following Jonathan Haidt's usage to describe only the mostly parasocial DataFarming platforms;

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/podcasts/jonathan-haidt-strikes-again-what-you-vibecoded-an-update-on-the-forkiverse.html

So in response, I'll reframe the above as 2 kinds of social networks;

* social communication networks: many-to-many, relationship-based, ephemeral, eg Mastodon, Friendica, Misskey, GoToSocial

* social publishing networks: one-to-many, content-based, persistent, eg PeerTube, FunkWhale, WriteFreely, BandWagon

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Strypey@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz (2026-04-15 07:03:48)
Now having given these software projects as examples, I want to make it clear I'm describing use patterns, either of which can be applied to any software.

After decades of blogging, I can't help thinking of what I do on Mastodon as publishing. I link to my old posts and dig through them to find stuff, just like I do on my blogs. Conversely someone could use PeerTube to do video blogging, auto-deleting their old posts after a while like people do with their micro-posting accounts.

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Strypey@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz (2026-04-15 07:16:24)
Sure, now that Loops exists, it's probably the better choice for posting ephemeral microvideos, as part of a social conversation, like we do with text micro-posts. But Loops isn't constrained to this kind of social communication usage. It supports videos up to 3mins long, and people could just as easily use it to publish videos they might otherwise put on a YouTub channel. In the hopes they'll still be watched and valued many years hence.

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