My top nine
I have decided to create accounts everywhere and see which ones I end up using the most. I have downloaded apps where available or saved links to mobile web versions where not.
So, how to track which are my favorites? I turned off all device notifications, including count badges, so as to not conflate frequent notices with my organic interest. Before I open an app, I drag it to the top left of the first page of icons. So, the order of icons ends up being an indicator of how recently I last checked in. Here’s my current top nine. To give you a feeling for this, I don’t think I have checked Twitter even once in the past week. Facebook I checked exactly once.
Tootdon is slowly slipping down the list, as I get less and less enamored of its Twitter-like feeling. Meanwhile, MeWe has inched its way up to the number 2 position.
Brian Holt Hawthorne
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to see a weekly update of this posted so that others could also see how it is progressing. :)
Yay! Pluspora!
ReplyDeleteI'm interpreting this as Pluspora #4?
ReplyDeleteThere's a factor that's not accounted for here... is it not just how much you like the platform, but how much you like interacting with the people on that platform?? It's been mentioned as a conundrum that a platform could be great, but if no one is on it, it won't get much use or adoption. Critical mass?
ReplyDeleteOne question : how do you manage your time with 9 social networks?
ReplyDeleteTwo is already quite a waste of time.
I also fell for much of the technical side of MeWe, but I have reservations. The fact that you can't choose to make your posts truly public, and have them indexed/crawled and searchable by the various search engines, but have to log into MeWe to be able to see the posts, is a big negative. I want an open platform that doesn't fence you in!
ReplyDeletePluspora lack the group / community tools that exist in G+, MeWe and FB, and the lack of serious technical evolution since its main architect took his own life in 2012, is a point of worry.
ReplyDeleteLars Fosdal
ReplyDeleteWhat you mention as big negatives are readily known to anyone who researches the platform before they actually join it. That being the case, why would one join it if those things mattered to them?
If you want an open platform that doesn't fence you in then why even look at MeWe to begin with?
Mastodon is definitely not my kind of platform. It is very Tweetdeck like, and I don't find Twitter attractive as a platform. Fine for soapboxing, not so much for discussion and community building.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Hatchett Openness is merely one of the criterias, albeit an important one. Mewe is still very much a developing platform, so I still have hope.
ReplyDeleteThe lack of community in Pluspora is a plus for me.
ReplyDeleteReddit master race
ReplyDeleteJames Lamb Yes.
ReplyDeleteIt occurs to me that a better metric would be to look at where these stack up on my weekly Screentime report. I’ll post that as a comment.
ReplyDeleteJames Lamb I consider the presence of interesting people and the ease of finding them to be the two most important features of any platform. This is why MeWe is currently #2. Lots of interesting people. Easy to find them.
ReplyDeletePluspora may be #4, but I can’t even figure out how to follow people there, never mind find people to follow. I’m not sure what I am even looking at on it.
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ReplyDeleteSusan Young Given that I am still spending nearly 8 times as much time on G+ as the nearest competitor (MeWe), I would say it still counts for at least the next 9 months.
ReplyDeleteWasn't MeWe just a startup project? You guys think spending time and energy there is wise?
ReplyDeleteI think that's a very good way of moving forward. I have done similar, enrollign to 4 alternative platforms. All are becoming useful for different reasons, mostly just subscribing to interesting subject areas. Haven't decided where my Blog-type posts will go yet. MeWe seems the favourite so far.
ReplyDeleteKerem Go I assume you are contrasting a “startup project” with open source projects, and implying that one is superior to the other in terms of longevity?
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I would prefer an open source solution, but so far I haven’t found one that is compelling for me. It certainly isn’t diaspora or mastodon. That latter is a far too limited Twitter clone, and the former I just can’t figure out. What I see on the stream doesn’t match the getting started guide. There doesn’t seem to be anyway to block people from my stream and I keep getting unwanted posts. Maybe these are community spotlight posts on the pluspora pod, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to disable community spotlight posts. The lack of any way of blocking a user is a deal killer for me.
Brian Holt Hawthorne finding people is a challenge I've had with pluspora. Hashtags seem vague, but I guess experimenting with those would be one way. As I was learning about the system I connected with someone who had their address posted on the web, but they don't publish much publicly. Most of the people into Google Plus aren't being that prolific elsewhere. I'm disappointed one of my G+ connections shifted to Instagram, which is more about broadcasting than discussion. I think she may have gotten tired of discussions, but Instagram stories have a pretty limited reach and some of her broadcasts there could serve a broader audience (but would appeal only with editing).
ReplyDeleteFacebook?????
ReplyDeleteYou are kidding, aren't you?
In case you aren't: why did you decide to go for G+ , back then?
Heinrich C. Kuhn Are you talking to me? If you are, I maintain a Facebook account for the sole purpose of keeping up with my son on the other side of the continent. I check in between once a week and once a month to see what he has posted.
ReplyDeleteThat - keeping in touch with family scattered across the world.
ReplyDeleteAlso local citizen science groups (more substantial than Twitter)
www.openbook.social?
ReplyDeletewww.minds.com?
See https://plus.google.com/u/0/115676309183554211519/posts/ECKvZinzhCm
openbook.social - Openbook | A social network for a better tomorrow.
Stefan Quandt Openbook doesn’t exist yet, except maybe for a few alpha testers. I haven’t met anyone who has actually used it yet. With G+ shutting down in 4 months, that’s probably going to be too late.
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