Escaping-Social-Media
The workshop/discussion looked to explore what FLOSS options are available as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter. The session ran for a couple of hours and surveyed a number of tools, use cases and issues to be considered.
The initial plan was to develop a set of recommendations that someone could adopt to begin on the road to leaving behind the corporates, things turn out a bit different than planned and instead it was more of a sketching of a number of use case scenarios.
Rough notes
The tools discussed were
The basic criteria for inclusion are that the systems are FLOSS, open standards and federated media, systems that don't look to exploit peoples' social graph.
StatusNet
About status.net on the Techtools for Activism
https://techtoolsforactivism.org/alternatives-to-twitter
mustard android app for status.net
Anonomised Twitter and FB: TOR > status.net > twitter - facebook
Anonomised Twitter and FB: Anon Wordpress > status.net > twitter - facebook
Appleseed
http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/
GNUsocial
http://foocorp.org/projects/social/
Buddycloud
Pirate Social
pirate.social UK
Elgg
Diaspora
Tumbler
Tumbler
Mediagoblin
Mediagoblin http://mediagoblin.org/index.html
Gnu-Net
gnu-net - P2P file sharing
Friendika
Lorea
https://n-1.cc/ - Lorea
Presentation https://n-1.cc/pg/file/read/1226119/unlike-us-short-lorea-presentation
Crabgrass
Crabgrass - https://we.riseup.net/
GNU Social
http://foocorp.org/projects/social/
XMPP federated chat services
About
https://techtoolsforactivism.org/content/instant-messaging
Use case
1. anon campaigner
2. not being farmed
3. totally private
Stop being farmed
Three things to stop your social graph being farmed, while keeping a mobile phone and a facebook account
Example of being farmed
Donttrack.us
devils in the detail campaign - UK
1. Dont be tracked
2. work towards not using FB - start using: wordpress, identica, crabgrass, email, wiki
3. ??
Lost and found
https://mat.boum.org/ - photo metadata stripping
Resources
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/resources/
Reading and ideas
Federated chat servers XMPP