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===== SDF - The Ethical Social Network =====
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=== What 'Social Network' means to us (a history lesson) ===
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Electronic Social Networking has been around since the days of the ARPAnet. In the late 1960s and through the 1970s the ARPAnet allowed researchers to communicate and collaborate via //Electronic Mail// and FTP //File Sharing//. Protocols such as SEND allowed for //Instant Messaging// among users of systems and systems of other networks. //Electronic Mailing Lists// were //Discussion Groups// that later spawned the largest //Distributed Social Network// of the 1980s: USENET and its transport system UUCP. Paralleling this were many privately owned Social Networks called //Electronic Bulletin Boards//. These were usually stand alone, but some used //Interconnected Conferencing// and were linked together as //Nodes//, while some were also part of the UUCP network. USENET eventually made its way back to the ARPA/Internet where it continued to reign through the 1990s as the largest //Distributed Social Network// and it is still widely used to this day.
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To the users of the SDF Public Access UNIX System, 'SDF Social' is based on the concepts and principles of the early Social Networks that we have always been a part of and not the highly commercialized, for-profit and ethically questionable Social Networks of the late 1990s and 2000s.
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Simply put, SDF has always been about Collaboration, Non-Commercialism, Choice and Privacy.
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=== Shell Based Systems (only Accessible via an SDF shell account) ===
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Most of these systems have been in daily use since our start as a BBS in 1987
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* notes - send an 'at login time' displayed notification to a user
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* msg - send an instant message to a user across SDF systems (Based on TOPS-20 SEND)
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* bboard - a threaded multi discussion bulletin board
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* com - a multi room interactive chat (Based on TOPS-20 COMMODE)
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* oneliner - a oneline message (anonymous)
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* happening - an anonymous journal === Web Based Systems (these are enabled via the 'maint' command at the shell) ===
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* https://mastodon.sdf.org - Mastodon / GNU Social
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* https://gs.sdf.org - Quitter / GNU Social
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* http://sdf.org/elearn - An Online Classroom for Electronic Learning
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* http://sdf.org/gallery - An Image Gallery
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* http://motd.org - Blogging for the UNIX savvy
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* http://tx0.org - URL Shortening Service
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* http://sdf.org/minecraft - Private MineCraft Server === What Makes SDF Social Different ===
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* SDF predates 'the web' (gopher / http) by several years
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* SDF has **never** used advertising 'banners', links or embeds
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* SDF does not monetize its access logs
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* SDF does not use any user data for market research
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* SDF does not share any data with 3rd parties
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* SDF has outlived many commerical / for-profit internet endeavours
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* SDF encourages individual creativity and collaboration $Id: social_network.html,v 1.21 2017/05/17 23:39:27 smj Exp $
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