Updated chart of current social network platforms, should be pretty much complete, comments welcome.
Updated chart of current social network platforms, should be pretty much complete, comments welcome.
For details, this spreadsheet will help:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1itbLtjWx2Cx88k2pqqwjY2j9vknLhoXpPXU52sTYbrI/edit#gid=0
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ReplyDeleteMedium is missing
ReplyDeleteDenis Wallez Isn't that more of a publishing platform rather than a blogging platform. I considered it.
ReplyDeleteBill Brayman long form blogging isn't publishing, no.
ReplyDeleteDenis Wallez I disagree. Long form blogs and their comments are the original form of online publishing, preceding our so-called social media.
ReplyDeleteLars Fosdal if you want you can go this way but then I'm afraid YouTube shouldn't be on the graph either... As it's mostly one-way, like blogs... Similarly, wordpress should be removed, bloggers too, etc.
ReplyDeleteEither the graph contains social media only, or it also contains related platforms... In which case and if it claims to be exhaustive then Medium is as relevant as WordPress
vimeo should be there along with youtube.
ReplyDeleteWordpress is a software bundle that can be self-hosted, for free, so put it only in "commercial" is a bit misleading.
Denis Wallez Interesting comment. For us who don't know about Medium, could you please explain why it compares to WordPress? There seems to be obvious overlaps, but it would be great to have some more clarity about Medium as a platform. Especially from a social platform perspective.
ReplyDeleteDima Pasechnik Agreed on both points. Bill Brayman perhaps a column could be added for this WordPress characteristic?
ReplyDeleteJan Henkins I guess one difference (in usage, if not in technical capability) is that Medium hosts both 'individuals' and 'journals/publications' (where various individuals collaborate).
ReplyDeleteMedium is oriented long-form but was from the very beginning meant as "the long-form for twitter": Medium is heavily integrated with twitter, and most people would log in on medium using their twitter credentials, then share on twitter, etc. So I guess the conversation is across 2 sites (Medium+twitter, which differs from most blogs where the sole conversation is in comments on the blog site itself).
WordPress offers somehow more flexibility on the pages you create, Medium enforces some kind of (minimal) uniformity in between posts from various sources, like any other social media.
Medium has decent tools for collaborative work, e.g. adding sidenotes and footnotes to the post of another… I don't know about WordPress on this (maybe it offers the same or better, I simply don't know).
And how about Reddit and Usenet/Google Groups ?
ReplyDeleteDima Pasechnik yes, will add vimeo. Wordpress is proprietary.
ReplyDeleteJan Henkins If twitter people commonly use medium to reference long posts, then it would make sense to add that connection.
ReplyDeleteDima Pasechnik Reddit is noted on the side, but it fails a general characteristics of social nets test so i didn't include it in the main list. Usenet/google groups might be a good addition, can you make a case for it being more than a mail list/old style forum like service?
ReplyDeleteDenis Wallez Thank you for an awesome clarification.
ReplyDeleteDima Pasechnik yes, wordpress dot org could be considered decentralized (still proprietary even tho it does limited crossposting) I may add the dot org version to decentralized category. Thanks for your comment.
ReplyDeleteMastodon message size is configurable. There are long form instances
ReplyDeleteBill Brayman My expansive definition of "social media" includes most forms of user-generated (as opposed to curated, solicited, or bid-placed) content, with some sort of "social glue". Phone calls, texts/SMS, chat, blogging, some news aggregators (Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, Tildes, ...), video and media (image, audio, multimedia) sites, wikis, social-graph apps (Friendfinder, Orkut, MySpace, FB, G+, ...), group chat, topical / local interest, events/activities, collaboration (GitHub/GitLab, etc.).
ReplyDeleteI said it is expansive.
Bill Brayman I think it's kinda misleading to call WordPress 'proprietary' here. Although WordPress dot com do charge for some features, the underlying software itself and its code is distributed for free (open source). I doesn't federate, I understand that much but it doesn't make it 'proprietary' IMO.
ReplyDeleteDO ИOꓕ DꓵbΓICⱯꓕE yeah, i got to fix that. Will put wp dot org in the decentral/open category. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteSee updated and (hopefully) final draft: plus.google.com - Here is the final draft of the chart Social Networking Platforms 2018. As bef...
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