[Hidden-tech] Social Media for HT

[Jeff Baker]

FB, as controversial as it is, is becoming a universal ID at this point. Another option might be a Nextdoor Type site.

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> On Jun 9, 2020, at 5:19 PM, Tom Kopec via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
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> I, personally, would like something that is standalone in terms of authentication..
> 
> I really hate sites that require you to log via to some third party (disqus, google, etc).
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> On 6/9/2020 4:42 PM, Rich at tnr via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>> Time for another review of how HT works for you each.
>> 
>> A long discussion always leads to people dropping off, many of whom forget this defeats the purpose of having more people to help, at the cost of a few uninteresting emails.  We tried FB and Linkedin a while back,  while little interest, given how time goes it could be 10 years.
>> We also get few additional members so there are clearly not much PR happening.
>> 
>> What you may not know, here is a summary of members.
>> Invalid:     2429  (means email addresses that bounced)
>> No mail:    501   (members who dropped off)
>> Valid:        2429
>> 
>> Personally I'm not in favor of FB although we do own https://www.facebook.com/Hidden-tech-271876579588753
>> (it is currently hidden)
>> 
>> I have been looking for alternatives and found a quite a number of options:
>> This is one of the more interesting because it will run on a standard apache/php server : https://friendi.ca/
>> 
>> There are more here: http://www.hidden-tech.net/social-media-ideas/
>> 
>> I am wondering how many would use any of these.
>> Let start with the general idea and we can narrow to options if there is interest.
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