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SocialStuffs
What Sites Would You Like To See on the "Also On" MeFi Feature?
The "Also On" feature is a way to share your activity on other social sites ("Hey everyone, I'm also mathowie at Flickr and here's a link to my profile!). The social app icons on your MeFi user page link to your public user account page on other systems. Here are some quick rules for submitting a Social App for consideration:
- The service must be a social network where other MetaFilter members can join and connect with you.
- The service must have a page that is a close approximation of "you" in the system. A profile page or a stream of your output is required.
- Please include a working link to a profile/output page when you add a suggestion.
- The service and linked page must be human-readable (no RSS) and available to the public without a login.
Social App Suggestions
Add your suggestions here.
- PillowFort -- A tumblr alternative that got a large bump of users after tumblr's content policy change. Example Profile -- Currently down. Will check back in later.
- PixelFed -- A free, federated, Instagram alternative. Profile example on pixelfed.social instance Example Profile
- cohost! -- An alternative non-federated social networking platform. (more info about it here) Working profile page
- Bookwyrm -- A free, federated, GoodReads alternative. Profile example on bookwyrm.social instance Example Profile
- Lemmy -- A free, federated, Reddit alternative that's been getting a lot of new users during the Reddit blackout. Profile example on lemmy.world instance Example Profile
- KBin -- A free, federated, combination Reddit alternative and microblogging platform that's also been getting a lot of new users during the Reddit blackout. Profile example on kbin.social instance Example Profile
- Sample Entry -- Description of site, Working profile page
Needs Clarification
- HowAboutWe -- Dating site focused on suggesting specific dates. http://howaboutwe.com/users/####
- Please add a link to a working profile page at HowAboutWe. (I can't find any obvious examples at the home page.)
- Netflix Recent Rentals -- http://rss.netflix.com/TrackingRSS?id=##### (Netflix users find their ### here)
- This is an RSS feed. Does Netflix have public profile pages?
Past Suggestions
- HamCall -- HamCall
- Doesn't show much information for non logged in members
- Bitcoin Forum -- Cryptocurrency discussion forum.
- A little too niche--not enough overlap with MeFi community
- Pottermore -- The Harry Potter site
- Requires a login to see profile pages.
- Diaspora -- Open source, privacy-aware social network, hermitosis's profile page
- No consistant domain for URLs. It's a distributed system and there's no central URL structure for profile pages. See the MetaTalk thread for details.
- MetaTalk discussion about Diaspora (Nov 29, 2011)
- Stack Exchange
- We already have Stack Overflow and these are distinct from Stack Exchange. If Stack Overflow makes these Exchanges profile The One True Profile to rule them all we'll add it. It's unclear how they're used right now.
- Kaboodle
- Doesn't seem heavily used right now. Not sure there's enough crossover with MetaFilter.
- Bloglines -- http://www.bloglines.com/public/dzho
- Bloglines isn't the sort of service people contribute content to, so there isn't much of a profile here.
- Other language Wikipedias -- http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Paul079
- 75% of MeFi members browse from the US. Adding all of Wikipedia's country options will clutter without finding many connections.
- ClaimID -- http://claimid.com/username
- There's no profile here that I can find. Please re-add above with a working profile URL if they have profile pages.
- National Novel Writing Month -- http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/usernumber
- Only active a few months out of the year, no?
- iusethis -- http://osx.iusethis.com/user/username
- Interesting sharing app, but not a social network.
- Muxtape -- http://jessamyn.muxtape.com
- Out of business right now, and not really a social network.
- eMusic The profile page url is www.emusic.com/profile/index.html?nickname=username
- Sample Profile -- http://www.emusic.com/profile/index.html?nickname=Smackfu
- Requires a login to see the profile.
- Diaspora - http://joindiaspora.com/people/usernumber (can also be formatted as username@joindiaspora.com)
- Requires a login to see the profile.
- Flavors.me - http://flavors.me/username
- Single page with links to other social networks, but not a network on its own.
- 6 Minute Story - http://sixminutestory.com/profile/osbornec3
- Neat idea, but not much of a network.
- QuizUp.com -- trivia game
- Requires login
Current Active List
MetaFilter Social Explorer - the page to search what MeFites are on a particular site
2018 Cruft Cleanout Project
A March 2018 metatalk prompted a clean out of social profile dead wood- sites that have shut down or otherwise become defunct. A Metatalk post announcing the changes swiftly followed.
Here's the process we used: Please check the sites in the first list. If they're still up and running, move them to the 2018 Live list. If there's positive confirmation that they're no more, move them to 2018 Dead. If it's just down, 2018 Questionable.
Unchecked
2018 Live
- 500px
- 8tracks
- airbnb
- Amazon.com
- Archive of Our Own
- Atlas Obscura
- AutoStraddle
- Bandcamp (artist, fan)
- Behance
- Bitbucket
- Blogger
- BoardGameGeek
- BookCrossing
- BookMooch
- Brewer's Friend
- Casual Collective
- Chowhound
- CouchSurfing
- Crazy Guy on a Bike
- dailymile
- data.world
- deviantART
- Diigo
- Discogs
- Doodle or Die
- Dreamwidth Studios
- Dribble
- Duolingo
- eBay
- Ello
- Etsy
- FindAGrave
- Fitbit
- Flickchart
- Flickr (widget)
- foursquare
- Fuelly
- Gamefilter.net
- Garmin Connect
- Genius -- formerly RapGenius
- Giant Bomb
- GitHub
- 'GitLab
- Goodreads
- Google+
- Greasy Fork
- Hacker News
- Health Month
- Huffduffer
- IFTTT
- Imgur
- iNaturalist.org
- Instructables
- IFTTT
- Keybase.io
- Kiva
- Kongregate
- Last.fm (widget)
- Letterboxd
- LibraryThing (widget)
- LiveJournal
- Livestrong
- MapMyFitness
- mastodon.social
- Medium
- MeFi Wiki
- Mendeley
- MetaChat
- MeWe
- Micro.blog
- Mixcloud
- MLTSHP
- Motley Fool CAPS
- MyAnimeList
- My Fitness Pal
- Netvouz
- Newsblur
- Ohloh
- OkCupid
- ORCID
- Pandora Radio
- Patreon
- Patternreview
- Pinboard
- QRZ
- Quora
- Rate Your Music
- Ravelry
- reddit.com
- ResearcherID
- ResearchGate
- RunKeeper
- Slashdot
- SoundCloud
- Sporcle
- SportsFilter
- Spotify
- Stack Overflow
- Steam
- Steepster
- Stellar
- Strava
- StumbleUpon
- Tumblr
- Twitch
- Twitter (widget)
- Untappd
- Urban Spoon
- VERO
- VideoSift
- Vimeo (widget)
- VSCO
- Wikipedia
- Wordnik
- World of Warcraft
- Xbox Live
- Yelp
- YouTube
- Special Fish
- Lichess
- Chess.org
- Board Game Arena (NB: you use a user number to identify yourself; you find this by searching for your own user name on the community page.)
2018 Dead
Gawker MediaMiiverseMonkeyFilterNeighborgoodsPicasaRetired by GoogleReadabilityrdio<-- bought by PandoraShelfari<-- merged into goodreads.tribe.net
2018 Questionable
- Degree Confluence Project Seems to be down at the moment. Back up now? --frimble
- del.icio.us Pinboard bought it in 2017, and it's now read only.
- Glitch This is a living site but different from the previous Glitch; should they be differentiated in the list to both memorialize the old site and avoid confusion?
- OpenHatch No longer responds on www, but openhatch.org is still there. The single Mefite profile does not resolve.
- PlayStation Looks like it's fragmented into new sites. Needs somebody with a Playstation Plus or Now account to verify.
- Storify Site is archived but old accounts are still accessible.
- This Is My Jam Site is archived but old accounts are still accessible.
I'm going to leave read only accounts alone. I've removed Playstation and we should see about the new glitch replacing the old one. :(
Retired
- 43 Things
- Anaconda.org
- ArtStack
- Atavist
- Canvas
- Cinemagram
- DataTau
- Digg
- Dopplr
- Furl
- Get Glue
- Glitch
- Google Reader
- Gowalla
- Grooveshark
- Guardian Witness
- hunch
- MyGamerCard
- MySpace
- PaperBackSwap
- PoliticalFilter
- Posterous
- PRX
- Rotten Tomatoes
- Runner+
- SmugMug
- SonicLiving
- Svpply
- Userscripts
- Vox
- We Endure
- Weather Underground PWS
- WikiData
- Worth1000
- Xanga
- Zotero