[FM Discuss] Open source social media manual?

[Anne GOLDENBERG]

Hi,
yep, good idea,
and I guess, before the tools,
a more contextual explanation of why not to use main stream social media
and what is at stake...
a but in the mind of how to bypass internet censorship
(but here... how to by pass internet bigbrotherhood :-) )

so thumbs up too
anne


2012/2/1 mick fuzz <mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org>

> Plunder this for some good stuff.
>
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activists-2/_edit/
>
> Also we would like to add stuff on diaspora / friendica
> and search engines like http://duckduckgo.com/
> which have a better privicy policy
> but does anyone actually know them? do we just trust them because they
> say they don't log ip addresses?
>
> Also for a good laugh check
>
>  * http://skipity.com
>
> they're pretty aware about privacy issues. check their privacy policy!
>
> nice one
> mick
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:02 PM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > thumbs up from me....we could also include elgg and info on ostatus...
> >
> > also booki is to some extend a social network platform...i think this is
> a
> > great idea :)
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 02/01/2012 05:37 PM, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> So when are we going to do a book about open source social media
> >> alternatives like Identi.ca and Diaspora? There is an urgent need to get
> >> people to join something less monolithic than the proprietary ones I
> dare
> >> not to mention.
> >>
> >> I don't mean a manual only about the technological aspects, ie. "push a
> >> button to publish a status update" or "how to set up your own Diaspora
> >> pod." It should definitely include the social and political aspects,
> since
> >> a lot of interesting information about the behavior patterns and even
> the
> >> political effects of social media are already available.
> >>
> >> I was just reading some Finnish books about proprietary social media and
> >> they were basically quite shallow. I think that FLOSS Manuals could
> easily
> >> create something that would have a lot more depth.
> >>
> >> And definitely do a chapter about IRC, which is basically a
> decentralized
> >> social media and has been around since 1988. (Usenet just had too bad
> >> privacy settings. You cannot find my IRC logs from 1994 with Google, but
> >> the Usenet will be available forever?)
> >>
> >> Then you might collect some interesting background stories from around
> the
> >> world. It might be interesting for you to know that the first Finnish
> >> Facebook-like social media was the IRC Gallery, which was basically set
> up
> >> for IRC users to share their pictures while chatting, but got swamped by
> >> hundreds of thousands of non-IRCing teenagers, who ended up thinking
> that
> >> IRC meant the website.
> >>
> >> What do you think about this idea? Is there a need for a book on the
> open
> >> source alternatives? Thumbs up or ignore?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Tomi
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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