Social Media Alternatives
- Appleseed
- Buddycloud
- Crabgrass
- Diaspora
- Elgg
- Freedombox
- Friendika
- GNU Social
- Identi.ca
- Lorea
- NoseRub
- Mediagoblin
- OneSocialWeb,
- Protonet
- StatusNet
- Thimbl
- GNU Social/Project comparison (Wiki)
Theory
- Thimbl Reader
- Public notes from Software initatives meeting at Casa400
Unlike Us blog
- Alternative Social Media Software. Soon near you! by Marc Stumpel, Insitute of Network Cultures, February 16 2012
- Leave Faceboogle! Join the Social Swarm.by Marc Stumpel, Institute of Network Cultures, November 16 2011.
- Unthink..Pay for openness and freedom? Think again! by Marc Stumpel, Institute of Network Cultures, October 26, 2011.
- Museums and artists take a stand against the dominance of social media by Marc Stumpel, Institute of Network Cultures, October 13, 2011.
Blog posts elsewhere
- Leaving Facebook: A compendium of reasons by Robert W Gehl, May 7th, 2010, digitalresearchers.
- 4chan’s Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong by Jon Mitchell, October 17th, Read Write Web.
- Diaspora* Adopts Computers, Freedom, and Privacy’s Social Network Users’ Bill of Rights, Diaspora*, October 24th.
Videos
- Presentation Lorea, Spideralex March 14 2012
- Pitfalls along social media alternatives development, Spideralex, March 14 2012
- Social Swarm, Unlike Us #2 Showcases, March 8 2012
- Lorea, Unlike Us #2 Showcases, March 8 2012
- Freedombox, Unlike Us #2 Showcases, March 8 2012
- The Global Square, Unlike Us #2 Showcases, March 8 2012