Social network must be a protocol, not a platform. That's the only way to gurantee free speech and cencorship resistance. Nostr[1] is proving to be a good first step in this direction.
RSS solved the "you fully own the content, everyone else can discover it via a well-known protocol" problem decades ago! Is it just that stuff like comments and reactions would be harder with just RSS?
Whether by design or because such sites just attract those kind of individuals, that's not good for a couple of key reasons:
1: Those kinds of interactions turn away many potential users
2: It makes advertising basically impossible (No potential advertiser wants to be associated with that kind of site)
There's a good reason that as sites like Reddit got larger, they started to clamp down on less desirable content.
And any form of social media with no advertising is always going to be very tiny and niche, and in general likely to die out quickly.
I first heard about nostr last in November when Twitter tried to ban it. There's an incredible dev ecosystem developing — so much so that I decided to rebuild Satellite (https://satellite.earth) the social platform I'd been working on to become a client for the protocol.
There's a bunch of other clients too. Someone started a directory here https://www.nostrapps.com/
I'm happy to answer technical questions about nostr if anyone is curious.
People want enjoyable communities far more than they want the 'freedom' to spam the n-word.
The majority of people however don't value it or actively desire it because no wants to live in a pigsty. There is a reason apps like Truth Social don't take off, and that 4chan never gained the mainstream popularity of other social sites.
There have been multiple reddit clones, multiple twitter clones, multiple social media clones all based on the false pretense that there is demand for a freeze peach social site, and they all fall flat. Mastodon is doing better than most and its gaining users because of Twitter catering to the alt-right and refusing to censor offensive or dangerous speech.
Is that something you are unaware of?