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I encourage people to participate in social media experiences other than Facebook and Twitter. I have a general issue with platforms that approach monopoly status as this gives these platforms too much power and limits innovation within a given sector of the economy. I like to spend some of my online time with platforms that don’t depend on ad revenue and the collection of my personal information. I admit it is a struggle because folks don’t like to make such changes and become comfortable with the social group they have on dominant platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a couple of suggestions for alternative platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wt:Social is a Facebook alternative<\/a> developed by Jimmy Wales. It has a general feed like Facebook that provides access to posts from individual subwikis a user joins. I am not certain why the wiki label is used to describe these interest groups. Users can collectively modify posts if the original author designates a post for that purpose, but most posts are intended to be static with attached comments from other users. This post from LifeWire<\/a> provides a nice overview of this platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I admit I have been a bit discouraged with the social experience to this point. The technology itself is great, but subwikis that sound interesting often have many members, but few posts. I have not had much luck attracting others to a subwiki I started, but I am sticking with it. I mostly cross-post things so I see this an effort to get Wt:social going. If you give wt:social a try, search for your interests and join a few subwikis to get started. Make certain you post and comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My second interest has been diaspora<\/a>. This project is based on a federated model. So, there are multiple sites running the diaspora software. You join one or more that interest you, but you can also experience a public feed combining the content added to the multiple sites. This seems a great idea, but the public feed is too big and too random. I haven’t really found a site focused on educational issues which would be what would be of greatest personal interest. I thought about hosting a site, but the way the software is developed it would too difficult for me to implement on my server space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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