[Hidden-tech] Social Media for HT

[Michael Muller]

Having pulled myself out of the tentacles of Facebook so it's no longer 
a daily (or multiple times a day) habit, it's very unlikely I will ever 
go there to catch up. The interface isn't very conducive to threads or 
searches, and the ads -- the ADS -- and the tracking. I just can't do it.

Community sites like Disqus, Diaspora, Friendica, (or even my own 
platform <http://www.montaguema.net/>) etc., are ok, as long as there's 
an email component, which is still the #1 "killer app."

For me, I filter all incoming emails into various folders. All emails 
"From:" hidden-tech.net or with the "Subject" of [Hidden-tech] get moved 
to lists/HiddenTech in my email program (Thunderbird) and it's easy to 
search, sort, etc. I don't have to do anything other than go to that 
folder and delete any emails I don't care about (looking at the subject) 
and read the rest.

In any event, moving from an email-based community to a web platform of 
any kind will risk losing a high percentage of your members, unless 
you're able to export/import them. Can't do that with FB or Google 
platforms. Maybe with the community sites... but how many will go with 
the transition? Like I said... email is king.

Is it broke?

Mik

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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/
> <https://friendi.ca/>
> 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.
>
> -- 
> Rich Roth
> CEO TnR Global
>
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