I joined a pod, but so far it looks like a paranoid LIVE JOURNAL feed. It may be the config on the pod, but it seems you set up ASPECTS which I'd hoped were similar to COLLECTIONS.
But unless you manually add people to an aspect's list, they can't see the posts there. So how do they know it even exists? In G+ the killer feature for me was COLLECTIONS because I could focus on posting to those, and if people didn't want to see those posts they could unsubscribe. The aspects seems to be teh reverse of that!
Laura Ess : As far as I know, there's only VK and Facebook, that includes some kind of communities or groups. And imho they're both no alternatives. You can look for special hashtags or collect people who tagged themselves with special aspects. To me, Pluspora looks good, handles good and is, well, some kind of funny.
Collections aren't communities, but a way of giving focus to posts. If they're done well you subscribe to the collection, not the poster. And if someone posts lots of stuff you don't like, but into a collection, you can unsubscribe to that collection but not the poster.
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ReplyDeleteJup!
ReplyDeleteIs there a proper, well maintained Android app for diaspora?
ReplyDeleteI joined a pod, but so far it looks like a paranoid LIVE JOURNAL feed. It may be the config on the pod, but it seems you set up ASPECTS which I'd hoped were similar to COLLECTIONS.
ReplyDeleteBut unless you manually add people to an aspect's list, they can't see the posts there. So how do they know it even exists? In G+ the killer feature for me was COLLECTIONS because I could focus on posting to those, and if people didn't want to see those posts they could unsubscribe. The aspects seems to be teh reverse of that!
Laura Ess : As far as I know, there's only VK and Facebook, that includes some kind of communities or groups. And imho they're both no alternatives. You can look for special hashtags or collect people who tagged themselves with special aspects. To me, Pluspora looks good, handles good and is, well, some kind of funny.
ReplyDeleteCollections aren't communities, but a way of giving focus to posts. If they're done well you subscribe to the collection, not the poster. And if someone posts lots of stuff you don't like, but into a collection, you can unsubscribe to that collection but not the poster.
ReplyDeleteCollections are one reason I've stuck with G+.
Aspects are more like circles, in that you can post public, to all aspects, or to only one aspect. But you can only set one aspect for each contact.
ReplyDeleteJürgen Erhard Nope, not at the one I tried. You can add a contact to any number of aspects. The trouble is YOU have to do that.
ReplyDeleteGah, thanks, Laura Ess! I'm still too new to diaspora* :D
ReplyDelete#newhere 🙄
ReplyDeleteI've hopped onto pluspora as well. My question is, can it scale to handle the load?
ReplyDeleteDan Thompson no clue. Kurt von Finck know all.... ☺️
ReplyDeleteWhen I checked last night, Plupora still had less than 900 users, but diasp.org - diaspora* has almost 90,000.
ReplyDeleteScott Jordan : How do you count users in Diaspora or Pluspora?
ReplyDeleteblog.diasporafoundation.org - How many users are there in the diaspora* network? - Das Projekt diaspora*
Don Krypton the-federation.info - The Federation - a statistics hub
ReplyDeleteDon Krypton Also for Diaspora server uptime: podupti.me - Social Network Pod Finder
ReplyDeleteFrederica Mussolini "Know all?!" Hardly.
ReplyDeleteBut I know I want to stay in touch with cool folks I've met on the Ploos, and I'm not going to FB.
Pluspora seems the most likely contender. But I'm watching the conversation around "Where do we go?"