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I am sad at what is now happening to the 23andMe company — that it has filed for bankruptcy, and is being sold.
23andMe holds an important place in the history Genealogy — and in particular Genetic Genealogy.
Although 23andMe had many applications, Genetic Genealogy was by far the most popular usage of it.
I.e., using genetics to understand ones family history.
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23andMe is (also) a social-network.
A social-network that includes both living and deceased people.
Some of this is expressed in the form of a family-tree. But it goes beyond that, as living people can (and do) communicate with each other, too.
And, there is a recommendation system of who to connect, based on if you are potentially related to each other or not.
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@reiver@mastodon.social3/
I have long thought that an open-source Genealogical social-network (including a Genetic Genealogy components) would benefit the Genealogy and Genetic Genealogy communities.
It would be straightforward to create it as Fediverse / OpenSocial software — using the same ActivityPub, ActivityStreams, NodeInfo, WebFinger, etc technology that the rest of the Fediverse uses.
@reiver one of the problems we already have is there are too many social media platforms genealogists use. There are those left behind on FB, BlueSky where there is little real engagement, WikiTree not so much chat, still a few emails groups. Then there is #Mastodon with #hashtags #genealogy #Geneadons @geneadons @genealogy #genchat Do we really need another space - discuss!
@edintone @geneadons @genealogy
A new open-source Genealogical social-network (including a Genetic Genealogy components) would NOT have to be separate from Mastodon or Bluesky.
It could be part of the same Fediverse that Mastodon is part of. And, part of the same ATmosphere that Bluesky is on.
(And, with a bridge both the Fediverse and ATmosphere would be combined.)
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@edintone @geneadons @genealogy
A new open-source Genealogical social-network (including a Genetic Genealogy components) COULD just use your same Mastodon or Bluesky account, so you wouldn't have to create a new account.
(And thus, could be a front-end client application (rather than a back-end server).)
I.e., make the Fediverse and the ATmosphere the new Genealogical social-network.