Social media: Difference between revisions
(of the 4 Consumium free social media hubzilla broke, friendica wasn't useful and GNU Social got overrun by commercial spammers of various sorts - d.consumium.org will turn 10 yrs old in 2023) |
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'''Consumium free social media''' as of 2022 hosts comprises of one free social media: [https://d.consumium.org '''d.consumium.org'''] [[#diaspora*|diaspora*]] since July 2013. | '''Consumium free social media''' as of 2022 hosts comprises of one free social media: [https://d.consumium.org '''d.consumium.org'''] [[#diaspora*|diaspora*]] since July 2013. | ||
Additionally there is a [ | Additionally there is a [https://mediagoblin.org/ GNU MediaGoblin] media hosting instance at [https://media.consumium.org '''media.consumium.org''']. Interesting to see when this will actually take off. | ||
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'''Read more on twitter''': | '''Read more on twitter''': | ||
* [[w:twitter]] | * [[w:twitter]] | ||
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'''Read more on Facebook''': | '''Read more on Facebook''': | ||
* [[w:Facebook]] | * [[w:Facebook]] | ||
=== Display === | |||
[[w:Display (social network)]] is Tsu rebranded and relaunched in 2021 | |||
== Former social media == | == Former social media == | ||
* [[Tsu]] [https://tsu.co (.co)] was an interesting experiment where they copied the other services in clean cut implementation and gave 90% of their ad revenue to their users. It ran from 2014 to 2016. | |||
=== Tsu === | |||
* [[w:Tsu]] [https://tsu.co (.co)] was an interesting experiment where they copied the other services in clean cut implementation and gave 90% of their ad revenue to their users. It ran from 2014 to 2016. Revived in 2021 as [[#Display]]. | |||
=== Google+ === | |||
'''Google+''' [https://plus.google.com/ plus.google.com] is a foray into social media by Alphabet Corporation also known as Google. | |||
'''Read more on Google+''': | |||
* [[w:Google+]] | |||
Revision as of 23:16, 27 May 2022
Consumerium analysis work in progress on social media
Free social media
These are free-of-charge and often free-of-commercial-pushing i.e. refreshing compared to the commercial social media.
Consumium free social media
Consumium free social media as of 2022 hosts comprises of one free social media: d.consumium.org diaspora* since July 2013.
Additionally there is a GNU MediaGoblin media hosting instance at media.consumium.org. Interesting to see when this will actually take off.
Hubzilla
- Hubzilla (.org) is a very nice free social media where membership is to the entire network, not only to an instance.
diaspora*
Friendica
- Friendica (.com) is the least steep and long learning curve free social media alternative to Facebook.
- The Friendica Directory is a place where you can find instances by location, groups, interesting tags and quite naturally people on the network
GNU social
- GNU social (gnu.io)
Forprofit social media
Twitter (.com) is a well known ad funded w:microblogging platform.
We are kind of there with the handle @consumium since 2012.
Read more on twitter:
Facebook (.com) is a well known ad funded social networking site that serves hundreds of millions of users every day.
We are there with the handle @consumium since 2012 but the account didn't become public till 2015.
They employ a modern approach to serving content, using a CDN (Content delivery network)
Read more on Facebook:
Display
w:Display (social network) is Tsu rebranded and relaunched in 2021
Former social media
Tsu
- w:Tsu (.co) was an interesting experiment where they copied the other services in clean cut implementation and gave 90% of their ad revenue to their users. It ran from 2014 to 2016. Revived in 2021 as #Display.
Google+
Google+ plus.google.com is a foray into social media by Alphabet Corporation also known as Google.
Read more on Google+: