alternatives to closed, secret Facebook groups?
Dear AoIRists, I hope this finds you well, despite it all. I'm wanting to know if any of you have good experience and can thereby recommend alternatives to a Facebook closed or secret group - i.e., a platform that offers the functionalities of these, but avoids entanglement with FB? Yes, I have some realization that, to put it in Montanan, there ain't nothin' pure, especially in the online world. But there are greater and lesser degrees of entangelement, and these may be relevant to the project I have in mind. Many thanks in advance for any advice and suggestions you can share. best, - charles ess -- Professor Emeritus University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Secretary, IFIP Working Group 9.8, Gender, Diversity, and ICT <http://ifiptc9.org/9-8/> Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany 3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out: <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>
Dear Charles, so far, I only researched Telegram, never used it for organizing a group myself. It works different than FB, but maybe could be an option. Fine grained privacy control, storage for hosting files, simple interface for all kinds of devices. Bots can help to get a decent comment system. Sure, it is a bit peculiar. By the way, I like Slack and Mattermost for organizing working groups, if you are looking for those purposes. Best Jakob Am 22.11.2020 um 06:59 schrieb Charles M. Ess:
Dear AoIRists,
I hope this finds you well, despite it all.
I'm wanting to know if any of you have good experience and can thereby recommend alternatives to a Facebook closed or secret group - i.e., a platform that offers the functionalities of these, but avoids entanglement with FB?
Yes, I have some realization that, to put it in Montanan, there ain't nothin' pure, especially in the online world. But there are greater and lesser degrees of entangelement, and these may be relevant to the project I have in mind.
Many thanks in advance for any advice and suggestions you can share.
best, - charles ess
I am part of a private group that moved from Facebook to Mighty Networks and I am enjoying the platform a lot. On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 12:59 AM Charles M. Ess <charles.ess@media.uio.no> wrote:
Dear AoIRists,
I hope this finds you well, despite it all.
I'm wanting to know if any of you have good experience and can thereby recommend alternatives to a Facebook closed or secret group - i.e., a platform that offers the functionalities of these, but avoids entanglement with FB?
Yes, I have some realization that, to put it in Montanan, there ain't nothin' pure, especially in the online world. But there are greater and lesser degrees of entangelement, and these may be relevant to the project I have in mind.
Many thanks in advance for any advice and suggestions you can share.
best, - charles ess
-- Professor Emeritus University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>
Secretary, IFIP Working Group 9.8, Gender, Diversity, and ICT <http://ifiptc9.org/9-8/>
Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out: <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>
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Hi Charles, I'm a fan of Mastadon. Plus, it's fairly easy to host a site. The down side is you have to host your own site. Sam ____ Sam Srauy, PhD Associate Professor Digital Media and Production Coordinator Oakland University Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations
On Nov 22, 2020, at 5:01 AM, Amy Stornaiuolo <amystorn@gse.upenn.edu> wrote:
I am part of a private group that moved from Facebook to Mighty Networks and I am enjoying the platform a lot.
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 12:59 AM Charles M. Ess <charles.ess@media.uio.no> wrote:
Dear AoIRists,
I hope this finds you well, despite it all.
I'm wanting to know if any of you have good experience and can thereby recommend alternatives to a Facebook closed or secret group - i.e., a platform that offers the functionalities of these, but avoids entanglement with FB?
Yes, I have some realization that, to put it in Montanan, there ain't nothin' pure, especially in the online world. But there are greater and lesser degrees of entangelement, and these may be relevant to the project I have in mind.
Many thanks in advance for any advice and suggestions you can share.
best, - charles ess
-- Professor Emeritus University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>
Secretary, IFIP Working Group 9.8, Gender, Diversity, and ICT <http://ifiptc9.org/9-8/>
Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out: <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>
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Hi Charles -- Dreamwidth might be an option, which is where many LJ'ers fled after that Russian company bought them and started mucking with things. To my knowledge it doesn't 'touch' FB ... but presumably there are others out there as well. (On a side note, I wish Twitter offered LJ/DW-like privacy granularity instead of the all-or-nothing option.) -- rick
On Nov 22, 2020, at 00:59, Charles M. Ess <charles.ess@media.uio.no> wrote:
Dear AoIRists,
I hope this finds you well, despite it all.
I'm wanting to know if any of you have good experience and can thereby recommend alternatives to a Facebook closed or secret group - i.e., a platform that offers the functionalities of these, but avoids entanglement with FB?
Yes, I have some realization that, to put it in Montanan, there ain't nothin' pure, especially in the online world. But there are greater and lesser degrees of entangelement, and these may be relevant to the project I have in mind.
Many thanks in advance for any advice and suggestions you can share.
best, - charles ess
-- Professor Emeritus University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>
Secretary, IFIP Working Group 9.8, Gender, Diversity, and ICT <http://ifiptc9.org/9-8/>
Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out: <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>
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Hi Charles, There's also https://groups.io/ I am part of a couple of research communities that use that. Peter. On 22/11/2020 19:22, Richard Forno wrote:
Hi Charles --
Dreamwidth might be an option, which is where many LJ'ers fled after that Russian company bought them and started mucking with things. To my knowledge it doesn't 'touch' FB ... but presumably there are others out there as well.
(On a side note, I wish Twitter offered LJ/DW-like privacy granularity instead of the all-or-nothing option.)
-- rick
On Nov 22, 2020, at 00:59, Charles M. Ess <charles.ess@media.uio.no> wrote:
Dear AoIRists,
I hope this finds you well, despite it all.
I'm wanting to know if any of you have good experience and can thereby recommend alternatives to a Facebook closed or secret group - i.e., a platform that offers the functionalities of these, but avoids entanglement with FB?
Yes, I have some realization that, to put it in Montanan, there ain't nothin' pure, especially in the online world. But there are greater and lesser degrees of entangelement, and these may be relevant to the project I have in mind.
Many thanks in advance for any advice and suggestions you can share.
best, - charles ess
-- Professor Emeritus University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>
Secretary, IFIP Working Group 9.8, Gender, Diversity, and ICT <http://ifiptc9.org/9-8/>
Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out: <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>
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Hi Charles, I've been using Mighty Networks (https://www.mightynetworks.com/) for a project and it's been a really great experience. Let me know if you have any questions about the platform. *_________________* *Derek E. Baird, M.A.* he/him/his Twitter: @derekeb <https://twitter.com/derekeb> My book, *The Gen Z Frequency*, is now available <http://amzn.to/2IKyToi>on Amazon! Chinese, German, Vietnamese and Ukrainian language editions in 2020. On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 10:00 PM Charles M. Ess <charles.ess@media.uio.no> wrote:
Dear AoIRists,
I hope this finds you well, despite it all.
I'm wanting to know if any of you have good experience and can thereby recommend alternatives to a Facebook closed or secret group - i.e., a platform that offers the functionalities of these, but avoids entanglement with FB?
Yes, I have some realization that, to put it in Montanan, there ain't nothin' pure, especially in the online world. But there are greater and lesser degrees of entangelement, and these may be relevant to the project I have in mind.
Many thanks in advance for any advice and suggestions you can share.
best, - charles ess
-- Professor Emeritus University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>
Secretary, IFIP Working Group 9.8, Gender, Diversity, and ICT <http://ifiptc9.org/9-8/>
Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out: <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>
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