[grishka]

The problem is that all mainstream social media has degenerated into entertainment. Staying up to date about the lives of people you know irl is seemingly no longer their intended purpose.

But people's need to connect in this way — just updates from those who they chose to follow, displayed chronologically, and no other content whatsoever — has not gone anywhere. That's why I'm also working on my own project that implements this type of social network with ActivityPub support: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

It's beta quality for now and I'm not promoting it much yet, but I hope to bring it to 1.0 by the end of this year.

[z3t4]

You should add some screenshots or video to the Readme, I'm too lazy to build it just to experience it.

[grishka]

Yes I should. A proper website that explains what it is and contains docs about the client API (that also doesn't exist yet) is something I plan to have for 1.0.

In the meantime, here it is live on my server: https://friends.grishka.me/

[petrusnonius]

The so called enshittification of the internet.