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'''Consumerium analysis work in progress on 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 ==
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]'''


== Free social media ==
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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.]]
 
=== diaspora* ===
 
* '''[[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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[[File:Friendica_Logo.png|thumb|right|Friendica.]]
 
=== 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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[[File:GNU-social-logo.svg|thumb|right|GNU social is a nice microblogging platform and network]]
 
=== 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 ==
== Forprofit social media ==
* [[Twitter]]
 
* [[Facebook]]
=== 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 ==
== Former social media ==
* [[Tsu]]
 
=== 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+]]
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