- The Fediverse has structural issues including concentration (e.g., mastodon.social hosting 40% of accounts), human cost (volunteer burnout), and complexity (ActivityPub is hard to implement).
- Org Social is a decentralized alternative based on a plain text file (social.org) that users host themselves, allowing full ownership, simplicity, and no reliance on instances.
- It addresses ethics through design: simplicity (easy spec), accessibility (human/machine-readable), decentralization (no central instance), richer format (Org Mode features), user ownership, censorship resistance, human sustainability, and honest privacy (all public).
- Limitations include no embedded media, no private messages, everything public, reliance on relays for better UX, and a technical barrier for self-hosting.
- Conclusion: Org Social reduces social networking to a user-owned text file, eliminating Fediverse problems as a design consequence rather than a promise.