2018 PEOPLE : Friendica for social media?

Friendica for social media?

Friendica is opensource software for social media communication.  The software is free, but somebody has to create a node (on a server) to run the software.  Nodes can connect with each other so it is a distributed network.   A grid could be part of a node. 

• friendica – A Decentralized Social Network
• Friendica is open source software for a distributed social network. 
• Friendica is part of the democratization of the internet.
• Thus its operation plan is less familiar than the G+ plan (whatever that was).
• To become a user you don't go to the Friendica website.  
• You find a Friendica node and register there.  
• You can immediately connect with others registered on your base node.
• You can also connect with others on Friendica or others on the Fediverse
• To connect outside of your base node, you need to know the Friendica address.
• Friendica is part of the Fediverse, "an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers."

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• MUVE (virtual world) update 12/13/2018

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Who would want to create and support a node?

• Grid operators: to support a community for the grid.
• Benefits: Integrate node with grid, product differentiation, promotion/marketing 
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• Educational organizations: To support communication among interested people.
• Interested people: Students, instructors, deans, parents, prospective students.
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• Community leaders: To support communication among interested people
• Interested people: Anyone interested in the activities/objectives of the community.
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• Nonprofits:  To support communication among interested people.
• Interested people: Those interested in the objectives of the nonprofit.
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• Businesses: To support communication among potential customers and salespeople.
• Benefits:  promotion and marketing, customer feedback

Why would someone run a node?

• You would create a node to support a community.
• You might choose Friendica because it is open source.
• You could customize it to suit your goals. 
• A web-world developer could connect its community of users. 
• A grid operator could connect it to the inworld communication system.
• That would let inworlders to chat with interested outworlders.
• A computer science department could let its students practice development on it.
• Node (networking)
• Node (Sociology)

Friendica details

• Since Friendica is under active development, new features may be added any time.
• The following links may be useful for finding current features.
• Friendica Documentation and Resources
• Welcome to Friendica
• Friendica features
• Friendica 2018.12 RC available
• The Federation

Thanks to IMA

• For those who want an all-in-one document about Friendica features:
• https://friendi.ca/about/features/
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• New member (user) instructions are here:
• https://social.isurf.ca/newmember
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• You can also find a list of mobile clients for it at
• https://friendi.ca/resources/use-it/mobile-clients/
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• The overall support forum can be found here:
• https://forum.friendi.ca/profile/helpers
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• For those wanting to host a node, the requirements are at
• https://friendi.ca/resources/requirements/
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• Self-host node installation instructions are here:
• https://friendi.ca/resources/installation/
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• Finally, ways to contribute is at
• https://friendi.ca/resources/contribute/

Friendica node to join

• You can create an account in Bill Bight's Opensim.Life node:
• https://social.opensim.life/
• If you start to create an account in another node, you may hit a problem.
• A common create account routine asks for address and password.
• Then ignores the password, creates a password and sends that to you in email. 
• Just ignore that first password you send.

G+ replacement

• Social Media: Discord may meet some OpenSim needs
• PlexodusWiki serves G+ users seeking to continue their community. 
• A collaborative blog is social media if you use it that way
• How do we replace Google Plus? Preliminary ideas
• Join "Jwheels Recommends" to promote events. Invitation
• Hypergrid communication quest, What we can get from MeWe?
• LinkedIn: businesses, educators, professionals: jobs
• YouTube cannot replace G+. But it can do some things better: Outreach
• NEW! A Discord Server for RyanSchultz.com Readers

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