[kwlug-disc] Social Networks

[Hubert Chathi]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:37:35 -0400, Stuart Seeley <stuart at lowlevel.ca> said:

> Thanks Bob, gonna give a coupe of these a try... keep threatening to
> leave bookface, but man... that’s just where EVERYONE is.

> Is there perhaps somewhere that’s tracking user #’s on each of these
> disparate platforms?

https://the-federation.info/ lists various statistics, with the caveat
that nodes could be lying about their stats, and not all nodes are
reported.

I use Friendica because I can use it to follow people from other
networks.  Support for other networks might not be perfect, but it works
well enough for my purposes.

> Maybe some of them will merge soonish...

> Stuart

> Sent from my iPad

>> On Oct 11, 2018, at 1:40 AM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> If you're looking for a social media application with a bit more
>> reach, try Friendica.  It connects to Diaspora pods, Mastodon,
>> GNUsocial and even Pump.io
>> 
>> I believe there are some people on this list who run a Friendica
>> instance...
>> 
>> There are some diagrams of how the different social media
>> applications interoperate at
>> https://sobac.com/wiki/Social_Media_Connectivity_Matrix Some diagrams
>> are a bit old, so some apps no longer exist (Red, RedMatrix), and
>> other apps have grown to encompass more protocols (Pump.io is
>> rumoured to support both ActivityPump and ActivityPub).
>> 
>> Also, since ActivityPub was standardized earlier this year there has
>> been an explosion of other apps that interoperate, eg. Pixelfed
>> https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed
>> 
>> And this is worth a read:
>> https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334
>> 
>> --Bob.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2018-10-10 9:59 p.m., Kirk Zurell wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:00 AM CrankyOldBugger
>>> <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> ...pluspora.  Does anyone here have any experience with this?  Any
>>>> good or bad impressions?
>>> 
>>> I have a soft spot for Diaspora, as compared to the more orthodox
>>> libre social mediums.
>>> 
>>> I have accounts on diasp.eu and joindiaspora, which I check
>>> semi-regularly. Don't know about the other pods, hadn't heard of
>>> pluspora until now (it's as new as the G+ closure, then?)
>>> 
>>> Have also tried setting it up on a home pod, got bogged down in
>>> Rubyisms and pre-Let's Encrypt cert. malaise.
>>> 
>>> All it needs is the same critical mass that took Facebook from a web
>>> app to a lifestyle.
>>> 
>>> Don't know if that innocent age will ever return...
>>> 
>>> Thanks Kirk
>>> 
>> 
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