Research on Social Media Platforms

Feature Sets:

Messaging * Direct Messages (Duo) * Any two users can message one another * Direct Messages (Group) * Any set of users can create a group of n users that can message one another * Group Messages (1D) * A multimedia messaging channel where people message one another in real time. 1D means there is only one channel available. An example would be IRC. Group Messages (2D) * A set of multimedia messaging channels where people message one another in real time. 2D means that a group of channels can be controlled by a single entity. An example would be keybase or slack. * Group Messages (3D) * A set of multimedia messaging channels that can be grouped together and managed using a permission system. An example would be discord and how people can have admin rights on catagory's but not the entire server. * Live Location Sharing

Status Indicator * Status Indicator (Boolean) * The ability to tell if a user is online * Status Indicator (Custom) * The ability to set a custom status or have it set for you. Examples would be "away", "online", "offline" or "Listening to Miley Cyrus on Sporify"

Post Feeds * Timed Posts * Share a video or picture publically or to your followers in a seperate feed that will become unavailable after a certain point unless the user reposts it somewhere. * Personal Feed * A personalied feed of posts shaped by the user. This can be as sinple as subscribing to a subreddit or a personalized feed based on what you watch like on tik tok. * Custom Feed Filters * Does the user have the ability to objectively shape their feed. For example on reddit a user can choose to sort by new, hot, best, or controversial or use a multireddit a custom feed that can be created by any user and shared with anyone else on the platform. * Featured Feed * A feed * Subscription Feed (1D) * Subscription Feed (2D) * Comments * Threaded Comments * Tags * Mentions * Selective Posting (1D) * Selective Posting (2D) * Selective Posting (nD) * Public Posting

Calls * Video Calls * E2EE Video Calls * Audio Calls * E2EE Audio Calls * Group calls * E2EE Group Calls * Live Stream Functionality

Platform as a Protocol * API / Bot Functionality * Client Open Source * Server Open Source * Federated * Self Hostable * Open Standard * P2P * E2EE functionality * E2EE by default