The Migration Plan
TGIF! This has been a very crazy week, full of mixed emotions. Even though we knew the day would come that the platform would close, I don’t think any of us expected the news to come this week.
In the meantime, we need to worry about us, as a community. Many people have questions about Pluspora and what its long-range goals and plans are. How will we fund it? Can we support the entire Plus community?
David and I have entered into discussions with multiple people on Google Plus and from Diaspora.org and together we have brainstormed the following plan:
1. Move as many early-adopters over to the Pluspora pod as we can support to make it easy for people to find each other during the learning curve, and to educate people on how to use diaspora. However, we can’t take ALL of GPlus onto Pluspora.
2. Encourage people to join other pods. A full list of pods and links to pods can be found at https://podupti.me/
3. Encourage Google Plus Community/Group owners to start their own pods to replicate their Google Plus Communities on Diaspora. Smaller pods of about 1,000 members can be maintained with minimal administrative duties and a budget of roughly $25/month. David and I will be creating a community on Google Plus to help people start their own pods. I am hoping they will do so as soon as possible, so we can have robust uptake.
We estimate with the capacity of Pluspora, and the already existing pods, we will still need about 20-30 smaller “community” pods for Plussers to migrate to absorb about 25% of active Google Plus into Diaspora.
Another note: Please know that so far diaspora source code has been generated and maintained by a small group of volunteer coders. They are as excited as we are about the new partnership. Google Plus is home to many technophiles and wizard coders. Diaspora.org welcomes the influx and help to expand and improve the code. So I expect that things will change over the next year regarding general code and feature availability!
As a diaspora pod member, you can talk to any other pod member, regardless of which pod they belong to. All you need to do is search and find their user name. Hashtags are also searchable, and this is how we are planning on finding each other across pods. I suggest people use the hashtag #Gplusrefugee or something similar. What are your thoughts?
tl;dr : What features would you like added?
TGIF! This has been a very crazy week, full of mixed emotions. Even though we knew the day would come that the platform would close, I don’t think any of us expected the news to come this week.
In the meantime, we need to worry about us, as a community. Many people have questions about Pluspora and what its long-range goals and plans are. How will we fund it? Can we support the entire Plus community?
David and I have entered into discussions with multiple people on Google Plus and from Diaspora.org and together we have brainstormed the following plan:
1. Move as many early-adopters over to the Pluspora pod as we can support to make it easy for people to find each other during the learning curve, and to educate people on how to use diaspora. However, we can’t take ALL of GPlus onto Pluspora.
2. Encourage people to join other pods. A full list of pods and links to pods can be found at https://podupti.me/
3. Encourage Google Plus Community/Group owners to start their own pods to replicate their Google Plus Communities on Diaspora. Smaller pods of about 1,000 members can be maintained with minimal administrative duties and a budget of roughly $25/month. David and I will be creating a community on Google Plus to help people start their own pods. I am hoping they will do so as soon as possible, so we can have robust uptake.
We estimate with the capacity of Pluspora, and the already existing pods, we will still need about 20-30 smaller “community” pods for Plussers to migrate to absorb about 25% of active Google Plus into Diaspora.
Another note: Please know that so far diaspora source code has been generated and maintained by a small group of volunteer coders. They are as excited as we are about the new partnership. Google Plus is home to many technophiles and wizard coders. Diaspora.org welcomes the influx and help to expand and improve the code. So I expect that things will change over the next year regarding general code and feature availability!
As a diaspora pod member, you can talk to any other pod member, regardless of which pod they belong to. All you need to do is search and find their user name. Hashtags are also searchable, and this is how we are planning on finding each other across pods. I suggest people use the hashtag #Gplusrefugee or something similar. What are your thoughts?
tl;dr : What features would you like added?
Wow, you have more active users than accounts on pluspora, Di Cleverly . 😃
ReplyDeleteI think one accounts which was active has left pluspora. And all accounts were active. That`s fascinating. It shows why people join social networks. ❤
Peter Kassau-Schmook Thanks, excellent link.
ReplyDeletePeter Kassau-Schmook Hallo und guten Morgen. Was macht man nun ab nächstes Jahr, wenn man sich nicht mit Programmierung oder Tabellen diverser Plattformen auseinandersetzen möchte, sondern einfach nur weiter diskutieren und posten möchte. Und das v.a. in deutscher Sprache.
ReplyDeleteWo geht man hin. Christoph Schaddach empfiehlt Diaspora, was meint Ihr?
regine k Moin Regine,
ReplyDeletePluspora bietet schöne Möglichkeiten, Beiträge zu posten. Und ein sehr freundliches Diskussionsklima. Du kannst Diaspora genau so nutzen wie bisher G+. Keiner verlangt von Dir, dass Du Dich für die Weiterentwicklung des Sozialen Netzwerks engagierst. LG, Peter 😊
Peter Kassau-Schmook ich leiste so glaube ich schon einiges für das oder im sozialen Netz. Ich kenne mich eben technisch nicht aus, das kann man nicht gleichsetzen mit fehlendem Engagement.
ReplyDeleteZudem wäre ich eher dafür g+ zu erhalten und dafür etwas zu unternehmen.
Dazu wäre ja noch etliche Monate Zeit.
Anstatt jetzt schon zu Alternativen zu wechseln.
regine k Sei nicht so überempfindlich. Ich wollte Dich in keinster Weise kritisieren.
ReplyDeleteIch sehe das jetzt als Chance, mein Blickfeld zu erweitern. Und meine Lernkurve ist schon steil angestiegen in den letzten Tagen. Ich hatte andere Netzwerke weitestgehend ausgeblendet, bis auf einen vollkommen privaten Facebook-Account, auf dem ich aber auch fast nie aktiv bin, weil ich FB furchtbar finde.