Open Social Protocols vs Proprietary Social APIs

Developers should learn Open Social Protocols to build decentralized social applications that prioritize user sovereignty, data portability, and censorship resistance, addressing issues like platform lock-in and centralized moderation meets developers should learn and use proprietary social apis when building applications that need to integrate with social media platforms for features like social login, content sharing, data analysis, or automated posting. Here's our take.

Open Social Protocols

Nice Pick

Developers should learn Open Social Protocols to build decentralized social applications that prioritize user sovereignty, data portability, and censorship resistance, addressing issues like platform lock-in and centralized moderation

Pros

• They are essential for creating interoperable social networks, enabling features like cross-platform messaging and content discovery in a trustless environment
• Related to: activitypub, at-protocol

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

Proprietary Social APIs

Developers should learn and use Proprietary Social APIs when building applications that need to integrate with social media platforms for features like social login, content sharing, data analysis, or automated posting

Pros

• Specific use cases include creating marketing tools that schedule posts across multiple platforms, developing apps with social authentication (e
• Related to: api-integration, oauth-2

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

These tools serve different purposes. Open Social Protocols is a concept while Proprietary Social APIs is a platform. We picked Open Social Protocols based on overall popularity, but your choice depends on what you're building.

The Bottom Line

Open Social Protocols wins

Based on overall popularity. Open Social Protocols is more widely used, but Proprietary Social APIs excels in its own space.