Re: FLOSS alternatives (was re:Campaign to boycott Facebook)
LM, 24/02/20 21:11: 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. Sounds like you want https://mobilizon.org/ , the test instance has been made available recently: https://test.mobilizon.org/ In general, have you checked https://degooglisons-internet.org/ and https://contributopia.org/ plus https://sandstorm.io/ too? For small mailing lists it's not that complicated to find an existing mailman instance to join, unless the topic of your group is very peculiar. If you don't need as many features or as right an integration with email workflows, for a new group I guess nowadays you'd probably end up on a hosted Discourse forum or something of the sort. Finally, a lot of people have unlearnt asynchronous communication, so instant messaging is all the rage; there are various good solutions for that. Federico ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
Re: FLOSS alternatives (was re:Campaign to boycott Facebook)
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:11:29 -0500 LM wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 Jim Garret wrote: > > From: Jim Garrett > > 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
FLOSS alternatives (was re:Campaign to boycott Facebook)
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 Jim Garret wrote: > From: Jim Garrett > 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
