On Social Media

Robert tested Hubzilla and Osada. Originally shared by Robert Freeman-Day ====== Hubzilla and Zot options for Post G+ ====== We have all been talking about where to go and what to do once G+ shuts down. Many of us have taken off on the very first bandwagon that passed by (MeWe) without much thought on staying power, ethics or even if there was a real way to hone it. Others have been sticking around and taking a bit of time to talk it over and explore options. I have taken the explorer bit to heart and played with what I have been told is part of the same family of communication/publication software. I started this journey after some experience with #mastodon and #diaspora (G+ ers have been hearing mostly of #pluspora, but diaspora is the same). Many other Plussers have spent enough time with these and plenty has been written (from what I can see). This group of social apps has not been explored too much by the group, so I thought I would take a little crack at it. They are suites based...

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...

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...