Another way to let people know where you are
I came across this site mentioned on Mastodon. Once registered, you can create a list of all the places you can be found, e.g. Diaspora, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, etc, etc. Then you just give people a single URL, https://wheretofind.me/ followed by the nickname you signed up with. As an example, here's where you can find me:
https://wheretofind.me/@garryknight
Of course, this is only useful if enough people share it. So I'm posting this in the Googel+ Mass Migration Community and also publicly. If you think it's useful, please pass it on.
#signalflare
https://wheretofind.me
I came across this site mentioned on Mastodon. Once registered, you can create a list of all the places you can be found, e.g. Diaspora, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, etc, etc. Then you just give people a single URL, https://wheretofind.me/ followed by the nickname you signed up with. As an example, here's where you can find me:
https://wheretofind.me/@garryknight
Of course, this is only useful if enough people share it. So I'm posting this in the Googel+ Mass Migration Community and also publicly. If you think it's useful, please pass it on.
#signalflare
https://wheretofind.me
Yes, it's useful. I would have gotten around to trying it at some point.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the demonstration.
that is still "single point of failure"
ReplyDeleteit is not really different from linking all those your pages from top-post in any ur blog, or from YouTube profile, etc
People have to know about your blog or YouTube profile in order to find it. They have to know that it exists and where it is. Sites like about.me can help, but this one keeps all of the relevant information in one central place.
ReplyDeleteAs I said, it's only useful if people use it and pass it around.
Arioch The A single point of failure might be better than zero points of contact.
ReplyDeleteTwo independent SPOFS are redundancy.
ReplyDeleteArioch The It is. But we can have several of those. Since they don't contain anything, but only link, things don't get lost if they close down.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with this is that it makes all the locations of your media sites available for data mining in one place. May not be an issue to some, but something to consider.
ReplyDeleteStuart Bates That's definitely a consideration.
ReplyDeleteIf you WANT TO BE FOUND, use such services.
If you prefer not to be, don't.
For communties, a community address, or a few key members, are often enough to reconstitute the group.
My about-me page kinda words like that and more :-D about.me - Kerem Go on about.me
ReplyDeleteHolger Jakobs exactly. You can make x-linking blog posts on every platform you use already, without needing a separate "blog without posts" service for it.
ReplyDeleteThere is also a blockchain for listing your blogs and other IDs. Claimed advantages were immutability and timespans ( you can revoke links, so the history would be like "this was my blog between 2010 and 2012, but after 2012 it is no more me" ), and also sharing parts of the profile.
It probably is harder yo use than one WWW page, and is one entity controlled (so probably can ban you or close the house completely), but at least there is some difference from present situation. This service though introduces exactly zero new.