Similar to how a search engine (like Google) can find websites across the internet, I built this website to find my posts across social networks.
How?
Google uses a protocol - a way to move things around the internet - called "HTTP"; it's the prefix you see before any url https://www...
My website uses a protocol called Nostr; it's a protocol for social networks. This means I can post whatever I want on this website, and it will be broadcasted onto social networking apps, 100% owned by me! In order for it to appear on a social networking app, the app must also use the Nostr protocol; a few apps that do are: Primal, Damus, and Amethyst.
Why I think this is really cool:
When you own a domain, you own it. When you create an account on TikTok, Facebook, etc. you DON'T own it. TikTok owns your name, image, and likeness. They can ban you without warning and they get to dictate whether you're able to say you are who you say you are. By owning my domain, and broadcasting my posts, my "account" page is my own website. I can customize it however I want, make it as weird as I want, post whatever I want, and it's 100% up to me!
Why do we use social media apps?
Because discovery, virality, and personalized entertainment across websites was impossible. Therefore, we moved to these centralized walled gardens that consolidated everything into a single place and created incredibly sophisticated algorithms that fed us content we enjoyed.
We can change this:
Protocols allow for full ownership, full sovereignty, and an open internet, all without compromising curation. This is why I'm building Siftree: a platform that allows you to build customized recommendation algorithms across the entire internet. A way to build your own "FYP" across billions of websites. This way, we can own our digital identities, own our content, never be silenced/shadowbanned/de-monetized, and still have the potential for viral content, curated feeds, and all the things we love about modern apps. Siftree doesn't "own" anything, we just point to it, just like Google, with the goal of returning the web to what it used to be: open and decentralized.
