The impending shutdown of Google+ will lead our Systems Sciences community to rely more on a Wordpress.COM platform...
The impending shutdown of Google+ will lead our Systems Sciences community to rely more on a Wordpress.COM platform put into place in January 2018. This is described at https://stream.syscoi.com/2018/10/09/google-plus-for-consumers-shutdown-oct-8-2018/ .
The multiplatform systems thinking community has encountered challenges since a (eventually recovered) LinkedIn community shutdown, causing many to flock to Facebook. Using Wordpress with an O2 theme enables commenting, and the Internet Archive backs up over the open Internet.
I (personally) am on Mastodon, awaiting others to join me at https://mastodon.cloud/@daviding . (I've been at https://diasp.org/u/daviding since 2015, and haven't seen much action there). Mastodon and Diaspora are more like Twitter, with the added feature of a gradient of intimacy (i.e. like Google Circles). Mastodon seems to be gaining traction, more than Diaspora (so I'm not betting on Plusplora, which is Diaspora pod).
https://stream.syscoi.com/2018/10/09/google-plus-for-consumers-shutdown-oct-8-2018/
The multiplatform systems thinking community has encountered challenges since a (eventually recovered) LinkedIn community shutdown, causing many to flock to Facebook. Using Wordpress with an O2 theme enables commenting, and the Internet Archive backs up over the open Internet.
I (personally) am on Mastodon, awaiting others to join me at https://mastodon.cloud/@daviding . (I've been at https://diasp.org/u/daviding since 2015, and haven't seen much action there). Mastodon and Diaspora are more like Twitter, with the added feature of a gradient of intimacy (i.e. like Google Circles). Mastodon seems to be gaining traction, more than Diaspora (so I'm not betting on Plusplora, which is Diaspora pod).
https://stream.syscoi.com/2018/10/09/google-plus-for-consumers-shutdown-oct-8-2018/
Thinking more deeply about Mastodon and Diaspora/Plusphora, the paradigm is different on group discussions (i.e. Google+ communities aggregates this way).
ReplyDeleteOn Mastodon, an issue discussing "Support Groups" at github.com - Support groups · Issue #139 · tootsuite/mastodon suggests uses bangtags (i.e. hashtags) to pull threads together.
In Diaspora, it would seem that "aspects" are used to "organise your contacts according to their role in your life", which means that they're like circles (for gradients of intimacy and privacy).
The underlying philosophy orients towards individuals, as opposed to topics or interests. This may be closer to the belief that "there's no knowing without a knower" (as C. West Churchman would describe). Using bangtags-hashtags is a different way of working that may be more dynamic, and the federated style may be more compatible with following people than following a community.