On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:11:29 -0500 LM <lme...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 Jim Garret wrote: > > From: Jim Garrett <jimgarr...@posteo.net> > > I also made the tactical choice to > > not for Free Software specifically, for which I'm sure many here > > will be disappointed. I generally do advocate for Free Software > > when I see an opportunity, but I felt the need to focus in this > > case, and can discuss software freedom in whatever follow-up > > conversations arise. > > I would be very interested to hear what alternatives there are to > various social media networks that are specifically Free/Libre > software based. I'd also be especially interested in what > alternatives work well with low resource or older hardware. Many of > the newer social media systems require the latest and greatest > browsers or other software that's complicated to build and isn't > always available for older systems. Forums like the Puppy Linux forum > try very hard to support older and low resource computers. Are there > other good examples of this sort of thing? With the recent issues > with Yahoo Groups, I investigated what free mailing list alternatives > were still available. I ran across a few options like > https://framalistes.org/sympa/ but I really could not find a lot of > options even when I looked at non-Free alternatives in this area. Has > anyone put together a list of FLOSS options for social media sites and > Internet methods of connecting with each other (whether they're web > 2.0 based or earlier concepts)? I'd appreciate hearing any > suggestions for FLOSS options for social media or suggestions for > resources where you could look up FLOSS options. Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > libreplanet-discuss mailing list > libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org > https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
You could check out https://switching.software/ as a start. I can't speak to resource requirements exactly, but I use an old Atom-based netbook with 2GB RAM so it's towards the low end. I have the sense that Friendica seems pretty lean. Mastodon seems to have more Web 2.0 elements, but I can run it with no particular problem. -Jim _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
