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| '''Consumerium analysis work in progress on social media''' | | '''Consumerium analysis work in progress on social media''' |
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| | We can divide the various social media by type. Most obvious is profit vs. nonprofit which we will use here. |
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| == Free 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.
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| * [https://d.consumium.org '''d.consumium.org'''] [[#diaspora*|diaspora*]] pod since July 2013
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| * [https://media.consumium.org '''media.consumium.org'''] is a [https://mediagoblin.org/ GNU MediaGoblin] media hosting instance.
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| | === Consumium free social quartet === |
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| === Hubzilla ===
| | [[Consumium free social]] as of 2016 hosts 4 free social media: |
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| * '''Hubzilla''' [https://hubzilla.org/hubzilla/ (.org)] is a very nice free social media where membership is to the entire network, not only to an instance. | | * https://d.consumium.org [[diaspora]]* since July 2013 |
| | * https://friendica.consumium.org [[Friendica]] since 2016 |
| | * https://hub.consumium.org [[Hubzilla]] since 2016 |
| | * https://social.consumerium.org [[GNU social]] since 2016 |
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| * ''[https://hubzilla.nl/pubsites/ Hubzilla.nl list of public instances]'''
| | Additionally there is a [[GNU MediaGoblin]] media hosting instance at https://media.consumium.org. Interesting to see when this will actually take off. |
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| [[File:Diaspora large new.png|thumb|right|400px|Diaspora is a s free-of-ads free-of-charge social media that is zealous in protecting the privacy of the consumer and often has high content quality.]] | | * '''Hubzilla''' [https://hubzilla.org/hubzilla/ (.org)] |
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| === diaspora* === | | === diaspora* === |
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| * '''[[diaspora]]*''' [https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Main_Page (diasporafoundation.org)] | | * '''[[diaspora]]*''' [https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Main_Page (diasporafoundation.org)] |
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| * '''[https://podupti.me/?advancedview=true PodUpTi.me diaspora* instances listing service]'''
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| * [https://wiki.debian.org/Diaspora Diaspora* installation instructions on the Debian wiki]
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| * [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Diaspora Diaspora* installation instructions on Arch wiki]
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| [[File:Friendica_Logo.png|thumb|right|Friendica.]]
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| === Friendica === | | === Friendica === |
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| * '''Friendica''' [http://friendica.com/ (.com)] is the least steep and long learning curve free social media alternative to [[#Facebook|Facebook]]. | | * '''Friendica''' [http://friendica.com/ (.com)] |
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| * The '''[http://dir.friendica.com/ Friendica Directory]''' is a place where you can find instances by location, groups, interesting tags and quite naturally people on the network
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| [[File:GNU-social-logo.svg|thumb|right|GNU social is a nice microblogging platform and network]]
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| === GNU social === | | === GNU social === |
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| * '''GNU social''' [https://gnu.io/ (gnu.io)] | | * '''GNU social''' [https://gnu.io/ (gnu.io)] |
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| * '''[http://www.fediverse.org/ Fediverse.org live GNU social instances listing]'''
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| == Forprofit social media == | | == Forprofit social media == |
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| === Twitter ===
| | * [[Twitter]] [https://twitter.com/ (.com)] |
| '''Twitter''' [https://twitter.com (.com)] is a well known ad funded [[w:microblogging]] platform.
| | * [[Facebook]] [https://www.facebook.com/ (.com)] |
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| We are kind of there with the handle [https://twitter.com/consumium @consumium] since 2012.
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| '''Read more on twitter''':
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| * [[w:twitter]] | |
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| === Facebook ===
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| '''Facebook''' [https://www.facebook.com/ (.com)] is a well known ad funded social networking site that serves hundreds of millions of users every day.
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| We are there with the handle [https://www.facebook.com/Consumium/ @consumium] since 2012 but the account didn't become public till 2015.
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| They employ a modern approach to serving content, using a [[w:Content delivery network|CDN (Content delivery network)]]
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| '''Read more on Facebook''':
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| * [[w:Facebook]]
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| === Display ===
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| [[w:Display (social network)]] is Tsu rebranded and relaunched in 2021
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| == Former social media == | | == Former social media == |
| | | * [[Tsu]] [https://tsu.co (.co)] |
| === Tsu ===
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| * [[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]]. | |
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| === Google+ ===
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| '''Google+''' [https://plus.google.com/ plus.google.com] is a foray into social media by Alphabet Corporation also known as Google.
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| '''Read more on Google+''':
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| * [[w:Google+]]
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