This week's edition of RNZ MediaWatch included an interview with Indymedia veteran Evan Henshaw-Plath, who is currently working on a Scuttlebutt app called Planetary.social:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018860941/christchurch-call-pushes-against-the-algorithms

#RNZ #MediaWatch #EvanHenshawPlath #PlanetarySocial #Indymedia #Scuttlebutt #SSB

Christchurch Call pushes against the algorithms

New Zealand is leading a bid to break open social media’s secret algorithms as part of The Christchurch Call  response, with backing from some big tech outfits. But without input from the biggest ones, will it undercut the extremism on social media platforms?  Mediawatch asks a social media pioneer who founded the forerunner of Twitter, but now wants to break the power of the big platforms.

RNZ

I've just been watching a video of an Open Tech Will Save Us meetup from June 2020, where @rabble from Planetary.social explains that the SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt) protocol had already been reimplemented in a bunch of languages, well beyond the original Node.js prototype. The Planetary implemention uses Go:
https://invidious.tube/watch?v=_fTREjXQCto

#Scuttlebutt #SSB #PlanetarySocial #Go #OpenTechWillSaveUs