Editing Social media

'''Consumerium analysis work in progress on social media'''

We can divide the various social media by type. Most obvious is profit vs. nonprofit which we will use here.

== Free social media ==


=== Consumium free social quartet ===

[[Consumium free social]] as of 2016 hosts 4 free social media:

* https://d.consumium.org [[diaspora]]* since July 2013. See [[#diaspora|diaspora* listing for more alternative instances]]
* https://friendica.consumium.org [[Friendica]] since 2016
* https://hub.consumium.org [[Hubzilla]] since 2016
* https://social.consumerium.org [[GNU social]] since 2016

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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=== Hubzilla ===

* '''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://hubzilla.nl/pubsites/ Hubzilla.nl list of public instances]'''

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=== diaspora* ===

* '''[[diaspora]]*''' [https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Main_Page (diasporafoundation.org)]

* '''[https://podupti.me/?advancedview=true PodUpTi.me diaspora* instances listing service]'''

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=== Friendica ===

* '''Friendica''' [http://friendica.com/ (.com)] is the least steep and long learning curve free social media alternative to [[#Facebook|Facebook]].

* 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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=== GNU social ===
* '''GNU social''' [https://gnu.io/ (gnu.io)]

* '''[http://www.fediverse.org/ Fediverse.org live GNU social instances listing]'''

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== Forprofit social media ==

=== Twitter ===
'''Twitter''' [https://twitter.com (.com)] is a well known ad funded [[w:microblogging]] platform. 

We are kind of there with the handle [https://twitter.com/consumium @consumium] since 2012. 

'''Read more on twitter''':
* [[w:twitter]]

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=== Google+ ===
'''Google+''' is a foray into social media by Alphabet Corporation also known as Google.

'''Read more on Google+''':
* [[w:Google+]]

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=== Facebook ===

'''Facebook''' [https://www.facebook.com/ (.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 [https://www.facebook.com/Consumium/ @consumium] since 2012 but the account didn't become public till 2015.

They employ a modern approach to serving content, using a [[w:Content delivery network|CDN (Content delivery network)]]

'''Read more on Facebook''':
* [[w:Facebook]]

== 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.