On Social Media

Originally shared by Danie van der Merwe Google+ Alternatives - an interesting case made for the use of Hubzilla Channels to replace Collections Channels (forums/feeds) on Hubziilla are quite powerful and most people just use a single one as their default feed. But you can create multiple ones with each one being a different theme/topic like G+ Collections. The link below points to that specific post on Hubzilla. Also, very interesting point mentioned in the comments that another new social network called Osada was created by the developer of Hubzilla and it is a slightly simpler trimmed down version of Hubzilla (why? because Hubzilla is really packed with features, apps and add-ons). Osada is open source and federated (but apparently excludes Diaspora/Pluspora which si very sad). Osada has native support for the ActivityPub protocol (W3C standard) as well as the more advanced but lesser known Zot6 protocol. It can inter-operate with other social networking applications and projects in...

Some observations I posted today about some alternatives I'm busy actively testing - I'm a heavy G+ Collections poster so it is this type of functionality I'm seeking to allow followers to tune into a specific topic I post on vs just profile posts. Originally shared by Danie van der Merwe My observations on alternatives to G+ that I'm testing and especially MeWe Groups It's been about two weeks now (I think) since the announcement about G+ shutting down by August 2019 and I've been testing out MeWe, Minds, Friendica, Diaspora (Pluspora) and Hubzilla quite actively. It's a pity I did not record the exact follower numbers as I did have Diaspora, Friendica and Hubzilla accounts open with some followers but Minds and MeWe were brand new so those are good indicators from a clean slate. I post the same content so there is no difference on that front except that for MeWe, Minds and Diaspora I have to repost manually which is a bit of a pain and I'll mention wh...