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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.


 
* [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.
 
 
The main [[#Consumium free social|quartet]] of the '''free''' is
 
'''Consumium free social''' as of 2016 hosts 4 free social media:
 
* https://d.consumium.org [[#diaspora*|diaspora*]] since July 2013.
* https://friendica.consumium.org [[#Friendica|Friendica]] since 2016
* https://hub.consumium.org [[#Hubzilla|Hubzilla]] since 2016
* https://social.consumium.org [[#GNU social|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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* [https://wiki.debian.org/Diaspora Diaspora* installation instructions on the Debian wiki]
* [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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'''Read more on twitter''':
'''Read more on twitter''':
* [[w:twitter]]
* [[w:twitter]]
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=== 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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'''Read more on Facebook''':
'''Read more on Facebook''':
* [[w:Facebook]]
* [[w:Facebook]]
=== Display ===
[[w:Display (social network)]] is Tsu rebranded and relaunched in 2021


== Former social media ==
== 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+]]

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.


HubzillaEdit

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

 
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


 
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


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:


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:

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+: