Alternative to Facebook

  • mmesford

    (@mmesford)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    Hi, I’m not sure where this should be posted but I thought I’d start here. I’ve been thinking about using WP installations as an alternative to Facebook for a while now. It’s a very rough concept and I have only rudimentary development skills. So it’s not an idea I can implement by myself. Here’s the idea: anyone wishing to take part in this new social network would install a plugin that would fetch posts from others sites with the same plugin. The sites would be chosen by an algorithm like Facebook’s but it would be a transparent one and could be tweaked by the user. This would all happen on a separate page of an existing site. I can think of lots of ways to keep it separate from the main site so someone with a purpose-built website could use the network page off to the side as it were and not have it visible to the public. There are lots of problems, many of which I can think of solutions to, and probably lots of problems I haven’t thought of. But I’d love to get some feedback as to feasibility. And it’s very possible I haven’t explained it well. So, please, let me know if I’m crazy or if you need more info before you decide that I’m crazy!

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic
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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 9 months ago

    This forum is for questions about WordPress, which yours is not.
    If you want to connect sites together, you will need an internet. We’ve got that part… but WP is not involved.
    If they all use a central site to synchronize and make decisions, you can set that up. There have been lots of those over the years. Good luck competing with Facebook for that. You might want to look at Ning.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    5 years, 9 months ago

    Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic.

    This really is to vague to be a WordPress support topic but peruse the plugins section and consider searching for your requirements there.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/

    Thread Starter mmesford

    (@mmesford)

    5 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you both. I don’t think I’ve explained my concept well enough but I’ll keep working on it over on the plugins page.

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