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BuddyPress/WordPress as a foundation of alternative to Facebook


  • SMDM
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    @smdm

    8 years, 9 months ago

    I found an interesting discussion from about 5 year ago about an alternative to Facebook: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/alternative-to-facebook/

    What do you think about a bundle of plugins, serving your marketing, social networking and content management needs, turning your WordPress/BuddyPress to a Shopify or Volusion for content managers?

    Nowadays many people make money from blogging, like Pat Flynn, Yaro Starak, Defek Halperm. All they, and all the marketers say: ‘money is in the list’, referring the email lists they have and the options to manage their contacts freely in a platform independent way(in contrast with in Facebook and G+).
    We see many people wanting WordPress to become more ‘social’. What do you think about one such bundle. Would you use it?

    I have outlined my ideas in a lean canvas: http://decentralizedmodel.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/my-social-media-decentralization-core-via-lean-canvas/
    I’d be happy to see your thoughts.

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  • djsteveb
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    @djsteveb

    8 years, 9 months ago

    @smdm I had a similar thought about an open source, facebook / myspace alternative – an opportunity for the masses to have ownership of data and a federated system available to the masses – back when Andy Peatling announced he had a plugin to make wp social.

    I got excited when BP became a more official thing and launched a couple of projects to go in that direction. I’ve played with a bit of code and lots of plugins.

    I have a site running that is very used as an anti-facebook as it was established for exactly that in Feb 2009.

    Some years later BP lacks so many things, if I paid myself $1 per hour, and multiplied that my the amount of time spent trying to get BP things working as it should – then I would of been able to buy a dozen licenses for phpfox – I could of used the free dolphin script and bought a couple of mods for it –

    It’s July 2015 and this BP thing is still like a black sheep step child lacking basic functions. I’m glad to see some people working on it still – but I’m not sure it is going to be solid enough and complete enough to really peek people’s interest / expectations of what a social thing should be.

    I still have some hope, (and a couple of web sites tied to BP) but there are other membership options for WP to make it “more social”, and as far as a uhosted option for multiple groups – I think the joomsocial that was available years ago probably has a better chance of adoption in the way you are describing then this confangled mess of plugins we call BP – the social network in a box – that doesn’t have the basic stuff myspace had a decade ago – lol

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