====== Decentralised social media for Glasgow ======
I run public servers for Glasgow for some of the decentralised projects I find interesting.  Most of them use the [[ActivityPub]] protocol.

  * [[https://glasgow.social]] - Mastodon, a Twitter-like platform for microblogging
  * [[https://lemmy.glasgow.social]] - Lemmy, a Reddit-like platform of forums (subreddits/subcommunities)
  * [[https://matrix.glasgow.social]] - Matrix, an IRC (Instant messenger) like platform for chat rooms etc (similar to Discord)

I've experimented with PixelFed and PeerTube, but decided not to devote the resources to running them publicaly.

I also run a [[https://wiki.glasgow.social|Wiki]] for Glasgow.  While it isn't decentralised, all the data is available as both a [[https://wiki.glasgow.social/download|download]] and a [[Gemini]] site: [[gemini://wiki.glasgow.social]]

===== Why decentralise? =====
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I'm collecting some links that sum it up better than I can:
  * [[https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people_2021|The Oatmeal: Reaching People on the Internet in 2021]]