Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives (2014)
...[R]esearching open source social networking alternatives online is a bit like reading about star couples in the entertainment tabloids; it's hard to tell who's dated who, who's on their own and who's still together.
Diaspora's still around. Identi.ca (not to be confused with Friendica) became Status.net which is now Pump.io but if you want to try it out you have to visit Ephemeral Me. There's Tent.io which you used to be able to try out at Tent.is but is now Cupcake.io. Diaspora and Tent considered getting together but decided not to. Still with me? Good, because Status.net is now part of GNU Social. There's Feedly which became the Stream Framework with SaaS commercial partner GetStream.io. And, don't forget BuddyCloud or the Activity Streams standard. And that's just branding and relationship status, it says nothing about the actual quality, viability or status of these technologies.
If you're not overwhelmed yet and haven't despondently clicked back over to check your Facebook account, someone at Wikipedia has compiled this questionably helpful comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking. I apologize if I left out or misunderstood your awesome project but honestly folks, it's really hard for people to figure out what your technology is doing and whether it's worth investigating....
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-social-networking-alternatives--cms-22445
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-social-networking-alternatives--cms-22445
...[R]esearching open source social networking alternatives online is a bit like reading about star couples in the entertainment tabloids; it's hard to tell who's dated who, who's on their own and who's still together.
Diaspora's still around. Identi.ca (not to be confused with Friendica) became Status.net which is now Pump.io but if you want to try it out you have to visit Ephemeral Me. There's Tent.io which you used to be able to try out at Tent.is but is now Cupcake.io. Diaspora and Tent considered getting together but decided not to. Still with me? Good, because Status.net is now part of GNU Social. There's Feedly which became the Stream Framework with SaaS commercial partner GetStream.io. And, don't forget BuddyCloud or the Activity Streams standard. And that's just branding and relationship status, it says nothing about the actual quality, viability or status of these technologies.
If you're not overwhelmed yet and haven't despondently clicked back over to check your Facebook account, someone at Wikipedia has compiled this questionably helpful comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking. I apologize if I left out or misunderstood your awesome project but honestly folks, it's really hard for people to figure out what your technology is doing and whether it's worth investigating....
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-social-networking-alternatives--cms-22445
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-social-networking-alternatives--cms-22445
Great article. It was well laid out and presented various offerings with pictures and simple language...just my type of post ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm going to share this to fb, but will take the link directly as won't these posts disappear in a few months?
al m I've been adding bits to Internet Archive.
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... in DDG.
Edward Morbius I'll reshare directly. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteal m There's also #PlexodusReddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus
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