App Profile: Freesteading

Freesteading is an online platform focused on homesteading and farming education. As a member, you have access to a huge community of knowledgeable experts, community leaders, and thousands of other members.



Communities & Groups
These are what drives our site. Groups are where you will find specific information and meet different groups of people. Communities are groups lead by a community leader and are the cornerstone of Freesteading. Communities are where you will meet new people as well as learn from the community leader and experts within that community. As a member you can join as many communities as you’d like. We encourage you to explore! If you find a community you like, be sure to join!

Forums
This is where you can have your questions answered. Forums are within each group and are designed to allow members to ask questions. These questions can be answered by members of the community including experts and community leaders. We use forums to ask questions because the feed can move quite fast on busy groups. The forum allows your question to be seen by many people and remain visible in a place meant specifically for questions and discussion. Forums also have a tab in each group called “Discussion”.


Activity Feed
The center for all activity on our site. Your activity feed is the central hub to display all activity from across our website. In your activity feed you will see posts and discussions from the groups you have joined, friends you are connected with, and people the you follow. The activity feed is sortable by all activity, your connections, your likes, groups you’ve joined, and people who have mentioned you. If you would like to see only your posts, you can do so by visiting your profile and then click on timeline.


Connect With Friends
Connections is a power tool to bring our community together. As you meet new friends in groups and forums, you can connect with them to see all of their activity on Freesteading. After you connect, you will also be able to directly message them.


Private & Group Messaging
1 on 1 and group messaging is now available on Freesteading. We believe direct communication is important to community, learning, and being social. You must be connect to another member of the website in order to private message.



Follow Feature
Is there an individual, expert, business, or community leader that you would like to see their activity but maybe don't want to connect with them? No problem, with the follow option, you can see all activity from any member on our site.