Social media: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 23:18, 27 May 2022

Consumerium analysis work in progress on social media

Free social mediaEdit

These are free-of-charge and often free-of-commercial-pushing i.e. refreshing compared to the commercial social media.

d.consumium.org diaspora* pod since July 2013
media.consumium.org is a GNU MediaGoblin media hosting instance.

HubzillaEdit

Hubzilla (.org) is a very nice free social media where membership is to the entire network, not only to an instance.

Hubzilla.nl list of public instances'

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*Edit

diaspora* (diasporafoundation.org)

PodUpTi.me diaspora* instances listing service

Diaspora* installation instructions on the Debian wiki

Diaspora* installation instructions on Arch wiki

Friendica.

FriendicaEdit

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 is a nice microblogging platform and network

GNU socialEdit

GNU social (gnu.io)

Fediverse.org live GNU social instances listing

Forprofit social mediaEdit

TwitterEdit

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:

w:twitter

FacebookEdit

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:

w:Facebook

DisplayEdit

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

Former social mediaEdit

TsuEdit

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+Edit

Google+ 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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 '''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
-=== Consumium free social quartet ===
+* [https://media.consumium.org '''media.consumium.org''']  is a [https://mediagoblin.org/ GNU MediaGoblin] media hosting instance.
-[[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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+[[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* ===
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 * '''[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 ===
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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)]
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 '''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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 '''Read more on Facebook''':
 * [[w:Facebook]]
+=== Display ===
+[[w:Display (social network)]] is Tsu rebranded and relaunched in 2021
 == 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+]]