Social media

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+: