Social media
Consumerium analysis work in progress on social media
Free social media[edit]
Consumium free social quartet[edit]
The main quartet of the free is
Consumium free social as of 2016 hosts 4 free social media:
- https://d.consumium.org diaspora* since July 2013.
- https://friendica.consumium.org Friendica since 2016
- https://hub.consumium.org Hubzilla since 2016
- https://social.consumium.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[edit]
- Hubzilla (.org) is a very nice free social media where membership is to the entire network, not only to an instance.
diaspora*[edit]
Friendica[edit]
- 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[edit]
- GNU social (gnu.io)
Forprofit social media[edit]
Twitter[edit]
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:
Google+[edit]
Google+ plus.google.com is a foray into social media by Alphabet Corporation also known as Google.
Read more on Google+:
Facebook[edit]
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: