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> On 10 July 2019 at 13:44 Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On 09/07/2019 20:50, Jon Davey via list wrote: > > Hi everyone, just a quick gathering of the consensus concerning alt-social media > > site 'Diasporia'. Is there one (a consensus) ? What do you make of it ? > > Cheers, Jon > > > > > Hi > > In terms of this, you may find https://fediverse.party/ useful to give > some information on the various services, that are federated, You are > free to set up your own instance of for example friendica, mastodon, > diaspora etc, this gives you full control, You can add people who > are on other services as this is the power of federation. > > Different services replace common proprietary solutions, gnusocial is > more like twitter ( Matt Lee can explain far more about this ) > > Each of these also have common features,k such as posting status > updates, support for adding photos or videos, calendars, etc. Sites > such as peertube offer a replacement for youtube, > > > However I think the point of all these alternatives is mostly privacy, > user control and user ownership of content, as in you upload a video you > keep control of it rather than giving the bigger entities the right to > use your content as they wish) > > Hope this helps > > > Paul > > -- > Paul Sutton > http://www.zleap.net > https://www.linkedin.com/in/zleap/ > gnupg : 7D6D B682 F351 8D08 1893 1E16 F086 5537 D066 302D > thanks Paul, there was an instance recently where some people had organised a free gathering using Facebook that got shut down by the authorities because Facebook had informed them of it. This was just a group of people who do want to pay exorbitant prices for the more commercial festivals and had applied the D.I.Y. ethic, yet they got arrested. This provoked the desire to move for myself. But I will probably use both if I'm honest. Jon > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq