Editing Social media

'''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.

* [https://d.consumium.org '''d.consumium.org'''] [[#diaspora*|diaspora*]] pod since July 2013
* [https://media.consumium.org '''media.consumium.org''']  is a [https://mediagoblin.org/ GNU MediaGoblin] media hosting instance.

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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* ===
[[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.]]


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

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

* [https://wiki.debian.org/Diaspora Diaspora* installation instructions on the Debian wiki]

* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Diaspora Diaspora* installation instructions on Arch wiki]

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=== Friendica ===

[[File:Friendica_Logo.png|thumb|right|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 ===
[[File:GNU-social-logo.svg|thumb|right|GNU social is a nice microblogging platform and network]]

* '''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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=== 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]]

=== Display ===
[[w:Display (social network)]] is Tsu rebranded and relaunched in 2021

== Former social media ==

=== 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+]]