Experiences: Pluspora is already the home of over 3.300 former GooglePlus-Users and it's on rank 10 of the biggest...
Experiences: Pluspora is already the home of over 3.300 former GooglePlus-Users and it's on rank 10 of the biggest pods of Diaspora. And it's growing fast! Also, it's the fastest of the big pods. Obviously no lag whatsoever.
I'm there. I like it so far.
ReplyDeleteGlad I joined a German pod.
ReplyDelete[ Dude ] : Been there, done that. Would have been too wide for a smartphone...:)...!
ReplyDeleteI wonder how they handle the costs. I haven’t seen any appeal for donations.
ReplyDeleteI'm there, but I'm not sure I will stay. I'm also looking into MeWe and I might even stop using "social" media at all.
ReplyDeleteMathias Kussinger Plus, Diaspora is a nice concept but it's way too basic, and there seems to be no interaction between the pods so if you sign up on pod a and your friend signs up on pod b, you can't interact with each other.
ReplyDeleteRyan Cavitt That's incorrect. You can communicate with people in other pods.
ReplyDeleteRyan Cavitt I experience no difference between contacts on different pods.
ReplyDeleteMathias Kussinger I've been unable to find people that I know use Diaspora on different pods.
ReplyDeleteRyan Cavitt Most of the G+ people signed up at Pluspora.
ReplyDeleteRyan Cavitt Searching for username@podname works for me.
ReplyDeleteTheo Fenraven I figured but I know people who've been using it for years.
ReplyDeleteI tried diaspora, but the mobile web interface is basically unreadable with teeny tiny type and no way to change it. Otherwise, it looked pretty good.
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne How one accesses it certainly makes a difference. As I'm on a computer all day, that's how I do it.
ReplyDeleteOn Pluspora.. use
ReplyDelete#gplusrefugee to find other plussers.
[ Dude ] Let's don't get that far! Imagine the possible infections...!
ReplyDeleteTheo Fenraven Pluspora looks very barebones to me. Is it? MeWe, On the other hand, sounds like they will be getting G+ like features and be the place to go to
ReplyDeletePluspora (as all other 'spora flavours) is way to feature lacking for me and thus no alternative.
ReplyDeleteEduardo Feliciano I doesn't have everything I need, but what social media does these days? I'm still exploring and debating. If they don't provide a safe environment for my photos, I won't stay there.
ReplyDeleteMy main concern at this point is to not lose touch with the wonderful people I have met here.. everything else can be refined later. I have been using G+ as my home base for everything, so I'm going to have to rebuild my whole virtual world..
ReplyDeleteIt is bare bones at the moment, but it's the conversations and the people that really matter to me, not bells and whistles. I mean I started with glowing green text on a black screen. Now that was hard to read!
ReplyDeleteMeWe has a definite Wild West Libertarian free for all feel to it. No thanks.
Jodi Kaplan
ReplyDeleteI have seen multiple people say that about Mewe. I haven't checked myself, but I value the people's opinion that I have met here and don't believe they have an agenda other than finding a location that let's intellectual friendships flourish unmolested.
I have heard you can't edit a post on Pluspora.. which I'm not thrilled about.
ReplyDeleteJ Stone I haven't found a way to do it. I don't like that either.
ReplyDeleteMatthew Graybosch gah! My mistake. Deleting my prior comment, and thank you for the correction!
ReplyDeleteRyan Cavitt Me as well, can't explain it. ID checks out so far. J Stone Yeah, can confirm (unfortenately), which makes me wonder if it's the right plattform to migrate some content to.
ReplyDeleteSeems that third-party reliance for hosting short stories, RPG projects and the like will make a comeback.
J Stone no you can't. However, with the influx of new people comes an influx of code warriors, and they are asking for people to pitch in and help add features.
ReplyDeleteAll the pods combined don't even have half the user of Minds which is at 1¼ million.
ReplyDeleteNot really as interested in quantity as I am in quality. YMMV.
ReplyDeleteJodi Kaplan One thing I learned from archery:
ReplyDeleteQuantity and quality are related.
You need to shoot loots and loots of arrows to become good.
Martin Krischik one thing I learned from direct marketing: an audience of 5,0000,000 teenagers won't help you sell denture cream. :)
ReplyDeleteIt should be noted that two Plussers, Di Cleverly and David Thiery started pluspora with their own money and have set it up just for us...meaning you have to have a real Plus presence to join. They are moderating for bots/spam. It will be quality because it will be us without the bots, haters, etc.
ReplyDeleteJodi Kaplan
ReplyDeleteThat could be a wonderful thing!
This looks very promising. Thank you for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteThe perfect place would seamlessly import our G+ pages. We are unlikely to find such a place.
In any case, unless Google backtracks on its plans to close, it's a given that even members in the same community aren't all going to wind up in the same place.
Although groups.io is probably not such a place, I can testify that it almost perfectly imported an entire group and its structure from Yahoo Groups. This might be a great opportunity for groups.io, if they were made aware of the need.
groups.io - Welcome to Groups.io!
Matthew Graybosch Why do you not trust WordPress? Curious, because, if I ever did start a blog, I'd planned to do so there.
ReplyDeleteMathias Kussinger There's discussion of Patreon-based funding.
ReplyDeleteRyan Cavitt Sorry, your information on interconnectivity is absolutely incorrect. I'm communicating with a large number of Pluspora members from Joindiaspora, another pod.
ReplyDeleteThere's ... some ... interconnectivity with the rest of the Fediverse as well.
[ Dude ] LetsEncrypt should answer the TLS/SSL issue.
ReplyDeleteSteve Vasta I don't either. WordPress is a huge and consequently a favorite target of criminals. IF patches are promptly applied, it's mostly secure. But there have been successful break-ins to fully-patched WordPress sites. Google wordpress attacks or something similar and you'll see.
ReplyDeleteMy own, former WordPress site was hacked. You don't have the time to hear all of the problems that we had to deal with, trust me. :-)
stefan holzhauer Keep in mind:
ReplyDelete* The need for now is to find one or more suitable regrouping sites. Diaspora almost certainly doesn't fit all needs, but as at least an interim solution, it fits some.
* Diaspora is Free Software. The code can be updated and modified. This provides an option to fill in the features we need, provided Coding Talent.
* Brian Holt Hawthorne's mobile font complaint is germane, and should be addressed with a bug / feature request. Similarly for Diaspora app issues.
And no, Diaspora need not even be the interim solution, though with some 3,300 registrations on Pluspora alone, it's got considerable momentum.
I plan on looking at MeWe, though I have concerns based on numerous reports. Also encouraged by a few features, so we'll see.
Steve Vasta In another set of research I did, blogs feature a tremendous amount of high-quality content, and Wordpress specifically. This suprised the hell out of me.
ReplyDelete(Search "Tracking the Conversation" at https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius for details.)
There are a number of other sites that also did pretty well, notably Metafilter, though it has a largely distinct dynamic than G+, it's more like an Reddit / Slashdot / Digg style web discussion. Tildes.net follows a similar track.
Mike Waters WP offers both hosted and self-service capabilities.
ReplyDeleteIt's quite the hairball, and I have enough concerns that I'm not opting to use it. But it's large, established, seems likely to continue, offers RSS/Atom syndication, and again, certainly has proved itself as a capable host of quality content.
(And ... well, other stuff. But this is the Wild West Web we're talking about here.)
My own preference for blogging is GitLab + static site generator, and something to address the comments and search issues (there are options for each). This should be aligned with my own interests, provide me full informational control, as well as presentation (I don't like overly ornate CSS, but the Right Styling Applied Well does set the tone for a site). It also provides some experimenting capabilities.
I'm still in the process of rolling this out and extracting / restructuring previous content to apply, the G+ shutdown catches me mid-process.
If this guy is correct, then this is the ultimate solution. Any experiences?
ReplyDeletehttps://plus.google.com/+JulianDumitrascu/posts/bdccsLdqBts
Mike Waters I’ve been using G Suite since before it was called G Suite and before Google+ was first beta. This account is a G Suite account. It was a few months into the G+ beta before they implemented it for those of us on Google Apps for Domains accounts (the former name for G Suite).
ReplyDeleteRight now, cross-enterprise (publicly accessible) Google+ posting works fine on G Suite. Will they take that away next August? Nobody knows.
Note, other G Suite core apps like Drive, Calendar, and Photos all support sharing content publicly, so I am hopeful.