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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • Local social media is different from bigger social media platform.

    Those big social media generally are American/Western-centric. Sure, you can find local community on them, but their moderation system are often still Western-centric.

    You’ll surprised on how often other language being moderated (deleted/removed) because it mistaken as hate speech. For example, word that in certain language has neutral meaning, but mistaken as offensive in English.

    Also, local social media often designed to local culture. Xiaohongshu and Plurk are the primary example. Entirely unique UI and user experience.

    Even fediverse also this cultural-focused software. Take a look on Misskey (a Japanese-made fediverse software), it primarily designed for Japanese internet culture, which entirely different from Mastodon or Pleroma.




  • Instead of yet another globally massive social media, I want to see regional social media that’s not massive globally, but popular in their country of origin. Or niche social media.

    List so far:

    • Post.news
    • Koo (India)
    • Cohost
    • Hive
    • Plurk (still relatively popular in Taiwan)
    • Lofter (Chinese Tumblr)
    • Xiaohongshu (Chinese version of Instagram and Pinterest on one app, probably Pixelfed can clone their unique UI)
    • Lemon8
    • Weibo

    Art general:

    • Cara
    • Artstation
    • Xfolio
    • Pixiv
    • Deviantart

    Design:

    • Dribbbble
    • Behance

    Hobby specific:

    • Anilist
    • Kitsu
    • Annict (Japanese anime-tracker and social)
    • ComicSpace (Japanese manga tracker)
    • MyAnimeList
    • MyFigureCollection
    • MyDramaList