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* 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.

Hubzilla

• 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*

• diaspora* (diasporafoundation.org)

Friendica

• Friendica (.com)

GNU social

• GNU social (gnu.io)

Forprofit social media

• Twitter (.com)
• Facebook (.com)

Former social media

• Tsu (.co)