Topic: Open Source Social Media (Read 372 times)

It sounds like Steemit, Trybe.one. Then you have to start with niche marketing then. Good luck!

Hmmm....

Seems interesting at first glance, but it would be better if you can show a demo site that displays the feature/benefit set you claim.

The advertiser will pay the users!!! So basically the advertiser instead of paying a huge percentage to a third-party company ( like YouTube, Facebook, ect... ) for targeting the advertising message; the advertiser will pay a lower percentage to the users of our platform for targeting the message. So advertiser will pay less percentage and will get a better targeting system since is directly a User targeting the message and not an algorithm. Maybe it sounds confusing... therefore I will like to invite you to our chat so I can better explain it.

Social media is very wide and can reach a very wide range of people from all walks of life.It has both positive and negative imparts on people.But social media campaigns can help people to find new areas of investment that will help them to earn more money.This is a postive use of social media and its very beneficial to the user.Positive usage of social media is really very beneficial.There is a bad use of social media that can also be very harmful to the user.

Could you share how will the users be able to monetize and what are the contents which will help them to earn money from your platform and who will be paying money to the users? If this can be channelized logically it can be a big successful project.

Any news update?

On our platforms we ensure quality content to users. They will not be wasting their time like they do on facebook. We will not collect personal data from users because on our platform they will have no value. Also, the user will be able to monetize within our network program.

Nice list (apart from the closed source ones), mediagoblin is what mostly caught our attention though.

Thank you very much for the information! Do you have any experience with any of these projects?

Unfortunately we are still working on our website currently. But if you are interested you join our chat. Send me a pm with your email and i will invite you to our chat!   

I like the idea of such kind. And I think it is high time to make some platform with new possibilities and new vision, for people with the demands of this time. Facebook and UTube and so on were actual for their period of time, but everything is moving and developing. To my mind the great idea that will give users lots of possibilities will become popular very fast, like storm will rise and old platform may loose their popularity in some month. So. Do you still need a copywriter? I would like to try this idea.

What benefits would an average facebook user have on your platform ? The advertisers,contracts are the least concerns of a normal users.Until you can provide sufficient advantage over the existing platforms,you will have a hard time marketing your product.Perhaps you can take measures to make sure public data is never accessible to the third parties unlike facebook.

great idea any more information

Would love to get in contact, we're building a social network as well and looking for people to help market it. Please send me a message, or reach us at https://yuser.co/ and for quickest access through Telelgram (link found on site).

some of the sources we are got it on social media coverage from the link we are giving to us,So most of the people who are engage in bitcoin are watching on the enternet.Bitcoin community have depend on the internet thrending ,news on bitcoin stability, policy on bitcoin society, bounty and signature campaign policy, trading policy and many more.these are the benefits to open source in social media but we have a limitation on it try to confirm first before you click.

Social media truly needs to be decentralized.

I write about the need for an increasing number of decentralized social media enterprises. We have seen that the big companies (Facebook, twitter, youtube, etc.) that receive shares from the advertising pie are worried about the blockchain and they had banned ads of ICOs at the time when receiving a stroke of luck. Now is the time for new technological ventures to emerge. These companies are already monopolized by exploiting the market. It's time for them to topple them from the throne.

Here is the list of top 10 open-source platforms to create a social network:

1.Oxwall
Oxwall is developed and maintained by a small but dedicated team of 22 peoples. Oxwall has very impressive and flexible content management system, one that cannot be ignored. It has won 2012 people’s choice award for best social networking solution. It gives a professional touch that can be experienced by both users and administrators.

2.Elgg
This open source social network software won the best networking engine in 2008. It has features such as activity streams, user management, powerful data model, web services API, plugin API and access controls. It operates on Apache, PHP, MySQL and Linux environments that enable its easy installation and configuration.

3.Insoshi
Long Nguyen and Michael Hartl developed Insoshi. Logical Reality and Evan Dorn Designs maintain it now. It is a platform designed on Ruby on Rails. This free social network builder is released under MIT license. It takes around 30 minutes for installation. It has an efficient deployment system and support for version upgrades.

4.Lovd by Less
It is the first amongst few open source social media platform designed on Ruby on Rails. As it is developed by using model view control patterns, developers would just need a server and to update the database. It includes features such as user blogs, following mutual option, and the creation of a profile, private messaging, ease of interact, comments, and electronic mail activities. You can even link YouTube and Flickr to the wall.

5.XOOPS
XOOPS is a classic tool for evolving from small to big community sites, intra-company web portals, and more. XOOPS has a modular format that can be extended as per needs. The web content management system helps in it. You may start with a blog and further augment it into a social networking website and with more functionality.

6.AstroSPACES
It is one of the finest social networking website development companies. It is coded from scratch and is very efficient and easy to use. It is customizable, and PHP environment is used. It is licensed under GNU General Public License and uses Smartly Template Engine.

7.Mixxt
Mixxt is a social network design company, developing social extranets and intranets. It enables collaboration, communication, and Knowledge management through a single tool. It has a dedicated platform for fast development and enhancement. Develop your site with the help of custom designs, forums, wikis, and photos. It also provides a private network to set up your community and also makes it possible to work along with the others to help them and, grow yourself and your community.

8.Pligg
Pligg’s CMS is designed from scratch with the help of many contributors to help you build up your website. This open source social network software can be easily managed and used and helps to lively setup communities.

9.SocialEngine
SocialEngine provides the best social media development services and is the first choice among the users. It has features similar to those of the social media sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Members’ signs in through their accounts and brings along their friends to interact. It works similar to these major sites where users posts and share their data and contents with other users, and the same process goes on. This strategy helps in increasing publicity of your website.

10.BuddyPress
As you all would be aware of WordPress; BuddyPress is a social media service that helps you build up your social networking website using the WordPress. It has same frame structure as WordPress and enables you to customize into a unique site. It is a free open source development platform.

These are some interesting ideas in the social media space.  I believe that Twitter/Facebook/YouTube are doing themselves in with their extensive profiling and tracking.  That is playing out in the media right now.  Not sure where it will lead, potentially to some legal restrictions here in the U.S.  However, their business models are based on being able to highly target their ads, so any privacy restrictions will eat into their model.

I believe that decentralized social media is the answer, though there are some technical challenges that need to be met.  Please note, this does not mean that everything goes on a blockchain.  Though there is potential for some special-purpose blockchains in the mix.  My organization is working with some large content producers (YouTube people) and we've launched a project in our incubator program called Disperse.Network.  We want to get it to market sooner rather than later, so the decentralization will be incrementally implemented over time.  MVP will be less decentralized but will be launched later this year.  Decentralization isn't as crucial while a platform is undergoing constant evolution.  There's some great projects that provide a really good starting point to build upon.  The Disperse.Network platform is going to be more integrated than say the silo services Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/Instagram/Periscope.  The tighter integration between the various social media genres (microblogging, social network, video clips, images, livestreaming) will offer new ways to engage with the platforms.  It's an interesting project.

In any event, I believe you're on the right track with how you're looking at the evolution of social media.  It's going to take time, but the current platforms are sewing the seeds of their destruction.  Best of luck with it!

Best regards,
Ben

Can we get a link to your site? Interested in seeing how things look and what angle you're coming at the project from.

Above you can read the main structural differences between us and Steemit; besides we consider our platform as an ecosystem, in fact in addition to a fair distribution of advertising profits, we develop a series of features to make life easier for everyone:

The Guardians: a new protocol to check the quality of the contents.

Easy exchange: internal exchanger to make self-intuitive and fast cashin/cashout.

Rosetta: removal of linguistic barriers, with voice over and translation services.

Network Sharing: viewers will be able to monetize by sharing with their community.

Yes you are right there are many concepts and projects that aim to improve social media, I think they are all different and in the future, they can coexist. Today the monopoly of some social media has ruined the initial concept of social and internet its self, I think it is better to have many types of social media rather than a monopoly. Regarding the payments, we are planning to distribute 12% of the coins to all the people participating in the tasks performed. We are currently using Taiga for the division of tasks/coins.

I suppose to put more information in the first message, but I did not make a huge message.The biggest difference between our system and Steem is the payment method and the quality of the content. Steem offers a payment based on the influence of posts, while our system is based on creating quality content to receive advertising (although creators will still be able to receive donations and subscribing incomes).We try to encourage quality production in social media while from our point of view, Steem focuses on visualization. Today it may seem that the quality level on Steem is high compared to Youtube, but when big creators will start to enter the system everyone will try to make more visualizations and then it will create another Youtube. Therefore, small creators will no longer have the ability to make money. We will give creators the opportunity to make contracts directly with advertisers. So small creators will always have the ability to make money even if the system grows. Imagine a creator who has a channel where he talks about Chicago, certainly he will have a low audience and few views, but these few views can be used by a local pizzeria that decides to advertise his business. Even if there are a few thousand people, they are definitely interested in the pizzeria because they are from Chicago. Summing up we want to give small creators the chance to find small entrepreneurs who want to sponsor them. Giving to the creators the possibility to produce what they like, while small entrepreneurs will finally have the opportunity to advertise securely and conveniently on the internet (all the social media today are sponsored by large companies).

Just like what @ManaMan, give us more man, maybe you can find a lot of members who are willing and be interested to make the world (internet) a better place. 

Seriously though, since cryptocurrency is fairly young, we don't know, maybe your idea of open source media will take places in the next 5 years or so. Or probably post this is the services section to attract potential freelancers or people who are willing to join under you. Any sort of payment though? Or each one should do their part to make some money out of your project?

You have to provide more information as all you do is advertise but don't even put at end what are you advertising? What difference do you have over steem blockchain and it's competitor to youtube - dtube which is decentralzied through use of IPFS for instance? Of course getting members is a must and necessary step, because members are the key to platforms success.

We are a team developing a new open source social media.We have been working on this project since the first adpocolyspe problem on youtube arised. Today based on the recent issues, we think the existing social media needs a change and the changes have to originate from the community itself. We realized that if more participants join the community the more successful our project will be. Therefore, we are looking for motivated participants to join the community.
The main idea of the project is to give the ability to the creator to directly make contracts with the advertisers. The main goal is to change the incentive from content going viral to the quality of the content. The next step is to create a guardian system similar to blockchain miners but instead of verifying transactions they will verify content quality. We have furthermore ideas, but like I mentioned before first we need to make our community grow! We are specifically looking for front-end developers, graphic designers, and copywriters but any other help is welcome.
Please contact me if you feel we need the same change in social media!!!