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OpenFeed, an EU-run social network with an open JSON API, is live (public beta).

  • Public feed, open spaces, invite-only private spaces
  • EU company (Netherlands), EU hosting, no ads, no profiling
  • Posts appear in the order they were written, newest first. Nothing is ranked for you, and nothing is sold about you.

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[โ€“] amunoto@piefed.social 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

In what way is this better than the existing fediverse platforms?
Who is behind this platform?
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[โ€“] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Doesn't seem like it's a Fediverse platform. and they have an about section at the bottom. "A small, independent team" from the Netherlands is behind it.

[โ€“] erebion@news.erebion.eu 4 points 11 hours ago

Why use a closed platform when you can have an open universe of places?

Why make yourself dependent on a small team when you can instead be independent and use sofrware create by a large community without being bound to a single provider?

idk, I don't see the point.

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 points 16 hours ago

yeah well... reddit also started out with an open and free API... well we know how that turned out.

No ads for now, they need to have a monetization plan otherwise they will go under sooner than later (or they will try to apply for EU funds, then its even more heinous and just another L-Social.)

we live in the today internet where we simply can't afford centralized platforms anymore!

[โ€“] SrMono@feddit.org 5 points 19 hours ago

A Mastodon instance?