On Social Media

Quick Start on using Friendica Shelenn Ayres recently shared posted a series on the essentials of getting comfortable with Friendica. I like having tutorials in printed form - as they're much easier to skim through and use than swapping windows on a laptop, so I've pulled all these together as a PDF. It's pretty much identical to the originals apart from minor tweaks so the pagebreak are in reasonable places. This is recirculated with Shelenn's approval. I'm settling on Friendica as my new home, and this guide helped. Thanks Shelenn. https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2ropueobszkqcu/Friendica-Quickstart-by-Shelenn-Eyres.pdf?dl=0

Friends+Me Google+ Exporter update A fix has been released for the earlier bug (see below). Re-download if you're having issues. NOTE: THIS BUILD BREAKS FOR WINDOWS AND Linux. Should work for MaxOS. A fix is pending. Originally shared by Friends+Me There's a new Google+ Exporter bugfix release 1.7.9 Google account detection updated and a few minor UI updates including Refresh All button. Download from https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me * NEW Refresh All button to refresh all feeds with at least one already downloaded post. * NEW show last time the feed was downloaded/refreshed. * FIXED Google account detection. * FIXED MacOS app menu extended according to standards. #GooglePlusRefugees #GooglePlus #Google+ #DataLiberation #DataExport https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me

The end is near! Come into the light. The latest round of G+ disruption appears to be in high gear. In a week you won't see notifications for my annoying comments on you posts :-) For my remaining 2 Followers on G+, please look my up elsewhere. I'm in a few places as I haven't found the "perfect" replacement. I will always maintain a presence here: https://about.me/jsoanes Other current platforms: MeWe: https://mewe.com/i/johnsoanes Friendi.ca: https://social.isurf.ca/profile/walks_with_lens Dispora*: https://share.naturalnews.com/i/98ec33dbe9e1 Facebooks' ugly twin: https://www.instagram.com/walks_with_lens/ #signalflare

I have a Plus Page whose contents I would really like to preserve. I noticed that the Takeout archive does not contain any of the data in it. Anyone have an idea how to get that data?

#signalflare Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky Looks like Google+ is shutting down. You'll need to follow me on one of my other social media accounts: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wayne.radinsky Twitter: https://twitter.com/waynerad Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/waynerad Plusplora: https://pluspora.com/i/349bd7a0a754 or if you already are on a different Diaspora node: https://pluspora.com/people/6067dc00b2e8013620f700505608f9fe MeWe: https://mewe.com/i/wayne.radinsky Brrrrp! That link seems to be broken. Try https://mewe.com/profile/5bc4fd100297e45804b0d243 Minds: https://www.minds.com/therealwaynerad Vkontakte: https://vk.com/id512361400 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@waynerad https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/

The purge has hit high gear I see that my Collection that had 80K followers last week now has 10K. One community that had about 1.1 Million members now shows 11K #endisnear

I have a question. Does the notification widget shutdown apply only to browser or to G+ itself?

Hello, regarding album archive : (I did use community search and my browser's find in page before posting this, but had trouble finding the information) I know the "photos from posts" album, along with "profil photos" and "scrapbook" will be deleted, but on top of that I have an additional 100 or so automagically created albums, all following a DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD naming scheme, that contain usually 1 photo/image, mostly from my G+ posts, sometimes from my Google Photos uploads, which I find very weird. There's no option to download all the album archive at once, and it's unclear whether they will be included in a Google Photos takeout (unnecessarily big AND I have to manually select the albums with no indication of their origin) Quoting the faq : "Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive and your Google+ pages will also be deleted. You can download and save your content, just make sure to do so before April."

Looking for any kind of free & open source alternatives to big name software & services? Here's a recap of Switching.Social's #AlternativesAtoZ series. https://mastodon.at/tags/alternativesatoz

With only 34 days left until the Shutdown, I decided to test a couple of lesser known platforms in a hands-on test. Here are the results of my little test, I created the exact same account with the exact same username, avatar and content. (Note:I only tested social media paltforms that don't require a user account in order to see the content.) E-Sathi https://www.e-sathi.com/Donar4 customizable profile: yes pinned post: yes communities: yes messaging: yes brandpages: yes speed: reasonable Heypster https://www.heypster.com/fr/profile/22219 customizable profile: yes pinned post: no communities: yes messaging: yes brandpages: yes speed: fast Quitter https://quitter.im/donar4 customizable profile: yes pinned post: no communities: no messaging: yes brandpages: no speed: fast Tumblr https://donar4.tumblr.com customizable profile: yes pinned post: no communities: no messaging: yes brandpages: no speed: fast Kweknet https://www.kweknet.com/Donar4 customizable profile: yes pinned post: ye...

Take a look at https://sciencegifs.csullender.com/ static web site that was built from g+ takeout.json using parseGooglePlus.py provided at their https://github.com/shiruken/sciencegifs repo. https://sciencegifs.csullender.com/

https://youtu.be/fGDiTQnarjQ https://youtu.be/fGDiTQnarjQ

The Science GIFs collection by Colin Sullender is moving to a personal website RSS: https://sciencegifs.csullender.com/feed.xml Though it's not planned to be updated. #signalflare Originally shared by Colin Sullender For anyone that's interested in seeing the content of this collection once Google Plus gets shuttered, I've ported it over to my personal website using Google Takeout + Python + GitHub Pages. https://sciencegifs.csullender.com https://sciencegifs.csullender.com

Bringing the World into the Classroom are moving to Facebook #signalflare Originally shared by viviana lopez larretchart Hello everyone! as we all know G+ is coming to an END. These have been sad news to me mainly because I met lots of valuable teachers in this community I have opened an moderated for almost 5 years. I want to go on working with you ALL in a collaborative way. Let´s go on with our GLOBAL WORK! I invite You to join me and the rest of the teachers in this community in FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/groups/390700895081008/ If you agree to be part please SIGN IN! SEE you ALL there!

Updated! & new theme! I have downloaded recent posts, changed to a newer, more mobile friendly theme and added a banner. Next is some sort of landing page... Archived in Blogger Posts prior to 3 March 2019 in G+ Mass Migration have been downloaded via Google+ Exporter and archived at [ https://gplusmigration.blogspot.com/ ] No attempt has been made to index or organize, but you can get easy access to the information using "Search this Blog" and the labels. I have not resized images to fit or done any of the "finishing touches" I would do for one of my other blogs. I think there are over 1,000 posts going back to the beginning of the community, but I have not confirmed that figure. At least some comments have been included. You can comment further on each post if you wish. Comments will be moderated through Blogger. Post anonymously or identify yourself in the text of the comment. (Not as slick as G+!) This is offered to you as a learning resource and should...

Archived in Blogger Posts prior to 26 February 2019 in G+ Mass Migration have been downloaded via Google+ Exporter and archived at [ https://gplusmigration.blogspot.com/ ] No attempt has been made to index or organize, but you can get easy access to the information using "Search this Blog" and the labels. I have not resized images to fit or done any of the "finishing touches" I would do for one of my other blogs. I think there are over 1,000 posts going back to the beginning of the community, but I have not confirmed that figure. At least some comments have been included. You can comment further on each post if you wish. Comments will be moderated through Blogger. Post anonymously or identify yourself in the text of the comment. (Not as slick as G+!) This is offered to you as a learning resource and should give you a good idea of the Exporter results you might have to refine for yourself if you use G+Exporter [ http://bit.ly/GooglePlusExporter ] to retrieve you...

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190226005381/en/PASHpost-Opens-Doors-Displaced-Google-Members John Costigan, founder of the largest community of car enthusiasts on Google+, commented on why he chose to migrate his community’s 700,000+ members to PASHpost: “There are a lot of community-focused experiences on the web, but for die-hards like me and the rest of the Auto Enthusiasts community, PASHpost presents a more rounded, topic-focused alternative to some of the more person-centric platforms out there.” https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190226005381/en/PASHpost-Opens-Doors-Displaced-Google-Members

I am back to face book I am thinking four god in my life my story of my life in this year one-day on my way prayers at 5 .32 am on January my brothers and my sister I say I can....

A little test/demo/observation #1 Activity "here" has suddenly slowed, robots gone, I'm guessing the majority of people with a long sustained presence on G+ have already re-settled & are busy settling into new homes, new communities. #2 It feels rather nice to see, re-acquaint "old friends" from G+, and know that the mutual desire to stay connected goes far - be it to a pod/instance of Federation (e.g., Pluspora, where many G+ers are heading), or a blog platform or MeWe - which to be fair and honest, is exploding with new users from G+, with many photo and discussion groups, and many bells & whistles people love (e.g., chat and emojis) - but no real public visibility, and no real formatting options. But it is pretty and easy, like Facebook or G+ . So - this is not about me, except trying to share... I've been focused on salvaging hidden (album) images "here" and Collection photos which I posted only on G+ (and don't want to sift t...

This is amazing work happening in the Fediverse - the all inclusive free social network for the globe. If you haven't joined us yet, one way is to check the pinned post at the top of my profile before G+ goes away so you can connect with others. Then feel free to checkout the entire Fediverse without losing connections :) https://github.com/hoergen/besser-der-podcast/tree/master/fediverse

Do you use "OpenID"? Thinking this would be a useful shortcut for signing up in various Fediverse situations, I signed up using my Google+ profile url, which happened to be an OpenID. On or before 2 April, that G+ profile will be gone in favor of my Blogger profile url, which for some reason is not an OpenID. Is anybody else here in this situation? What should be done? https://openid.net/what-is-openid/

Some of the people who develop these numerous social media apps available on Google play must be fly by, overnighters who soon lose interest in the app and the quality which was there initially soon deteriorates.

Does anyone know which country UNHU originates from ? It seems to be a pretty reliable app.

Hello all, the instructions from Google say: "If you’re a G Suite customer, Google+ for your G Suite account should remain active. " Does this mean that to keep a G+ Community going, one could simply purchase G Suite with the Google Account used to create the Community?

Easy sign-up? Facebook and MeWe have uncomplicated signups. Register & you're in! Are Fediverse platforms Friendica, Hubzilla, etc. more complicated? Will new users face choices ("opportunities" for old hands but "guesses" for newbies) they did not have to make with FB, etc.?

Major Federated Network Types and Protocols Supported: (please provide any additional protocols to be edited in comments) Diaspora Macroblog Diaspora Friendica Macroblog Diaspora, OStatus, ActivityPub, DFRN, RSS, XMPP Hubzilla Macroblog Diaspora, OStatus, ActivityPub, Zot Osada Macroblog ActivityPub, Zot Socialhome Macroblog Diaspora GangGo Macroblog Diaspora Mastodon Microblog ActivityPub, OStatus Pleroma Microblog ActivityPub, OStatus Misskey Microblog ActivityPub GNUSocial Microblog OStatus WriteFreely Blog ActivityPub WordPress Blog ActivityPub, Diaspora Plume Blog ActivityPub Funkwhale Music hosting ActivityPub Peertube Video hosting ActivityPub Pixelfed Image hosting ActivityPub Matrix Chat/Conference Matrix, XMPP

#SignalFlare #WhereToFindMe https://wheretofind.me/@kahomono

This is a good history and forward look for the federated web space which will be much less confusing in the future as we all merge into the Fediverse. Take a look at the three Venn diagrams to see the evolution. https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334

Mewe App Permissions Hmm, interesting list of permissions required … hmm, contacts, oops? I prefer "social" media sites, which work ok in a smartphone browser, e.g. the DuckDuckGo browser and shun "specialized" apps. Originally shared by stefan holzhauer HAHAHA! So MeWe, the network that honors privacy so much and hates Facebook, just downloads all of your contacts just as Facebook does. I can't stop laughing. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/40444/ https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/40444/

I'm going to hear this from all my G+ friends who tried to warn me: "I TOLD YOU SO". I joined MeWe in December after hearing the news of G+ shutting down. I joined MeWe despite warnings about all the extremists and societal rejects of all sorts. I thought, the space is surely big enough to accommodate moderate mainstream liberal politics, right? WRONG. While MeWe claims they don't shadow ban, it's a big fat lie. Our humble little liberal politics group, is very active and growing, as were a number of other liberal and progressive politics groups. I just did a search for our group and it no longer is searchable. Up until a couple of weeks ago it was searchable. I searched for other liberal groups and there are only a couple still remaining out of gajillions of extremist political groups. It turns out that all one has to do is report a group for whatever made up reason and MeWe automatically removes your group from being searchable, thus starving the group from grow...

You should be aware of imposters stealing Christopher Gaul's ideas and copycatting the official Google Plus Refugee group on MeWe. I hope this community's owners, moderators, or even some of the members are not part of this? https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/102121698969414433327/+ChristopherGaul/posts/Bk1rFftzzjn

Question What is the official mobile application for Pluspora (or Diaspora)?

Egyptology community migrating to PASHpost #signalflare Originally shared by Caroline Murphy Heya all, just a quick note to say that we're in the process of working with PashPOST to get the Egyptology Community up and running there, prior to Google closing its Communities on 2 April 2019. While there's still a bit of work to do before I'm completely happy, the framework has now been set up. If you'd like to join us and keep the Community going (albeit in another form), please sign up at https://pashpost.com/group/egyptology?request_access=7NOH6trBzdZMfRIm5igD https://pashpost.com/group/egyptology

Thank you for all the suggestions offered by this group. I really appreciate it. I signed up for tests accounts on many of them. I've decided to go with Tumblr. I'll put a link to my profile so any of my friends in this group can follow me if they want to. The rest of you can have a look if you want to to see how I've got my account setup. The posts are old, and a couple of the links to categories don't have anything posted to them yet. https://stevemaclellan.tumblr.com

Is there's a recent list of multi-platform sites (i.e., with desktop access, not just apps)? As the end of G+ is sooner than expected, and trying to find desktop friendly sites is a mess to find to try out. I simply can't use app sites (smartphone screens are too small to read type comfortably; and they're not friendly but for Twitter communication/microblogging).

Sold on one of the Federated Social Networks? How did you choose? Mastodon has by far the most subscribers, but it is a "microblog." Friendica has fewer subscribers, but I think has been referred to as a "macroblog," perhaps more similar to G+. It looks as though "AGPLv.3" is the emerging standard. Should I steer clear of the others? Image from [ https://the-federation.info/#projects ] Click to enlarge.

Originally shared by Scott Bass Please share this link with your friends https://mewe.com/join/nasaphotoarchives https://mewe.com/join/nasaphotoarchives

Anyone tried this? Opinions? I like the concept (community funded and search engine indexed), but have no idea on the technical foundations. Originally shared by Edward Morbius Tildes -- topical discusion site -- Is now open to the public We should have places online where we can have meaningful interactions without worrying about our privacy and relationships being exploited for others' financial gain. Places that respect us and the communities we build, and help make them better instead of just trying to make them bigger. -Over the last year, I've studied what people want from online communities and what we need to change to make it possible. Combined with my own experiences, everything I've learned affects how I've been building Tildes, a new link-aggregator-style community site ..._ https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes This is a soft-launch: https://tildes.net/~tildes.official/ahb/the_long_awaited_moment_dracula_theme_added_oh_also_the_site_is_publicly_visible_...

Guys Mewe app has Google Analytics: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/40444/ I use this new extension on chrome that downloads the app from google play and test to find any trackers. This is what it found in Mewe, a Google Analytics for android: https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/ Do as you like with this infomation but clearly Mewe can't be trused. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/40444/

For those that are interested... Another rant from the Crazy Englishman The Unfit Bit https://thecrazyenglishman.com

Tildes -- topical discusion site -- Is now open to the public We should have places online where we can have meaningful interactions without worrying about our privacy and relationships being exploited for others' financial gain. Places that respect us and the communities we build, and help make them better instead of just trying to make them bigger. Over the last year, I've studied what people want from online communities and what we need to change to make it possible. Combined with my own experiences, everything I've learned affects how I've been building Tildes, a new link-aggregator-style community site ... https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes This is a soft-launch: https://tildes.net/~tildes.official/ahb/the_long_awaited_moment_dracula_theme_added_oh_also_the_site_is_publicly_visible_now_but_lets_not https://tildes.net https://tildes.net

Should there be a publicly supported social media network as an alternative to all these private silos? Both Medium and Wikipedia have discussion on this subject. [ https://medium.com/@maciekbaron/social-networks-should-be-publicly-owned-1d296b9432c7 ] and [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_as_a_public_utility ] https://medium.com/@maciekbaron/social-networks-should-be-publicly-owned-1d296b9432c7

Webmention.io: a hosted service created to easily receive webmentions on any web page This project is an implementation of the Webmention and Pingback protocols. It allows the receiving service to be run separately from the blogging software or website environment, making it easier to manage and integrate with other services. Say you have a statically-generated website using Jekyll or something similar, you can simply add the appropriate tags to this service, and now you have Webmention and Pingback enabled on your static site! https://webmention.io/username/webmention " /> https://webmention.io/username/xmlrpc " /> The Webmention and Pingback protocols also support specifying the endpoint in the headers, Link: https://webmention.io/username/webmention >; rel="webmention" X-Pingback: https://webmention.io/username/xmlrpc Features Accept Webmentions for any site by adding a simple html tag: http://webmention.io/username/webmention " /> Accept Pingb...

How to decentralize social media—a brief sketch ...The one-two punch here is the combination of points (1) and (4): First, we get behind decentralized social media standards and protocols, and then we use those standards when building plugins that let our friends, who are still using Facebook and Twitter (etc.), see posts that we put on [other] websites... #decentralizedWeb #socialMedia #socialNetworking https://larrysanger.org/2019/02/how-to-decentralize-social-media-a-brief-sketch/

Scaling up? Wikipedia's list of social media sites shows your competition. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites ] You can manipulate Wiki's spreadsheet online to rank social media as you please. The clip below was organized by number of "registered users." G+ is no.2 behind Facebook (!). (click to enlarge)

LifeCloud's ( https://www.lifecloud.site ) latest upgrade to our G+ Data Importer has been a success and we are seeing a lot of new imports. For those of you that haven't seen it yet you can check out the import tool here: https://www.lifecloud.site/googleplusdataimporter Keep those imports coming and let us know if you have any questons or comments in our LifeCloud Member Community here: https://www.lifecloud.site/shared/component/30053?entryId=21201 Have a Great Day. https://www.lifecloud.site/googleplusdataimporter

G+ Migration being mentioned in FastCompany. Just a head up we have start officially accepting end-to-end migration from G+ Communities to Tapatalk. Check out Tapatalk Groups and see if it can be a new home for you? https://www.fastcompany.com/90309646/theres-still-time-to-migrate-your-google-community-heres-how https://www.fastcompany.com/90309646/theres-still-time-to-migrate-your-google-community-heres-how

#signalflare Originally shared by Alex Kudlick My Migration Plans Well, seeing as how the end is nigh, its probably good to post an update. The long and short of it is that I won't have a place to be active like I was here until I finish building my own. That will take me a while, probably the rest of the year. I'm u/adkud on reddit, and I actively post in r/sfmagic (if you're in San Francisco and you play magic, check us out!) I should be posting blogs more regularly on alexkudlick.com . ive got a mailing list and an rss feed up there, probably will have comments at some point. Its been good meeting everyone here! I've had very satisfying and fulfilling interactions, specifically with Lev Osherovich , Edward Morbius , Miriam Rozian , Dor Kleiman , Boris Borcic, John Wehrle , and othered im sure im forgetting http://alexkudlick.com

Sum is more than parts. "I can change my mobile provider without changing my phone number (thanks to EU regulation). Why can't I change my social media provider without losing my social network and my data [context]?" Right question: https://twitter.com/vrepsys/status/1083748852048502785

#SignalFlare Originally shared by Matthew J Price Goodbye, Google+ And to the wonderful people who shared it with me and made it worth sharing, you have my sincere gratitude. Things start, and things end, and isn't it lovely in theory...

Sorry for the other post, but here's a much more positive one. What if we all banded together to convince Google Plus to spin off Communities into its own service, thus keeping the groups we love? Maybe they would have to transfer the data and members over somehow, but I think it's a lot better than shutting the project down and walking away. Anyway to give them feedback on this?

Google+ Mass Migration short FAQ Q: When is Google+ shutting down? A: April 2, 2019. Five months earlier than originally announced. March 7, 2019 for Google+ APIs , including Google+ Sign-in and integrations for web & mobile apps . https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133 https://developers.google.com/+/api-shutdown Q: Are any other Google services being shut down as well on April 2, 2019? A: No. This includes Gmail, Google Photos, Blogger, YouTube, Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Hangouts, AdSense, and many, many other Google products which will NOT shut down on April 2, 2019. Q: Where should I go? A: There is no one answer. The Google+ Mass Migration community can help you chose where to go, but you decide what fits best. Where your personal contacts go matters most. Major alternatives are listed here: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Established_G%2B_Exodus_Communities Q How do I know where people are going? A: Some have used this form: https://goo...

I don't know anything about Tapatalk but I thought I would share this. https://www.cnet.com/news/tapatalk-wants-to-help-your-google-communities-live-on/

Another approach to a new distributed social network: It turns out that git has practically everything that's needed to act both as storage and protocol for a social network. Not only that, but it's very well-known within and used, deployed and maintained in the circles I navigate, it scales very well (see github), it's used for critical infrastructure (see kernel.org ), it provides history, it's distributed by nature, etc. It's got almost everything, but not quite everything needed. Via https://lwn.net/Articles/780365/ https://www.karimyaghmour.com/blog/2019/02/gitgeist-a-git-based-social-network-proof-of-concept.html

Kuende is the first blockchain fueled social network that uses gamified challenges to reward real life social interaction see about her - > https://ico.kuende.com/documentation/Kuende_1_Pager.pdf https://kuende.com/

[Image & File Storage Features] As I get closer to the end of G+'s run, I'm more concerned about image storage in relation the posts I make. I do art, and I also work in virtual worlds (like Open Simulator) and in both cases I want to make posts that show images (and to a lesser extent videos) of both. Now using G+ has spoilt me in that regard, in that it was easy just to upload a copy of an image directly to the post, and there was no extra cost for storing that. This was important to me because I'm on a fixed income , and paying a subscription fee for storage is something I have to consider carefully (one reason I don't use Adobe's Cloud apps). It was possible to copy the URL of the images on G+ to share elsewhere. Google Photo complicated things in that after it was split from G+ ,if you uploaded more than one image you couldn't add individual descriptions for each. It was possible to do that in GPhoto, but that was only useful when you were in GPhoto,,...

#Google+ #GooglePlus #Takeout #Shutdown #JSON #PostgreSQL I rarely do public posts this technical... I'm not sure I ever have but since the reality is that the G+ shutdown is happening, I wanted to share my thoughts on using Google Takeout to get my data. I'm also posting this to the Google+ Mass Migration Community in hope it might help someone else. ~ ~ ~ Let me give you a quick reason for this post. What I think pains many of us who really embraced G+ and to be honest, are very upset about this shutdown, is that we spend a LOT of time posting here. As of my last takeout archive on 2019-02-13 I have made 4237 posts since 2011-07-10 (you'll see how I know that later). That may seem like a lot but it really isn't compared to other people I know. The number isn't what's important, its my time and that is something that can't be quantified because time is invaluable. For that reason, the prospect of losing the results of nearly 8 years of my life spent h...

Create your own social network? Instead of knocking somebody else's efforts, it is possible to create your own. Receive rather than dispense criticism! I wonder if we need more silos. Are we wasting our time creating or selecting from dinky walled environments instead of concentrating our collective efforts on reforming existing social networks? Are there any collective efforts organizing to reform Facebook, YouTube, etc.? We had the Early Access Community here on G+ which, though in house, worked fairly well. https://alternativeto.net/software/moosocial/

I don't know if anyone is interested in this, or something is already in the works, but I (for sadistic and sentimental reasons) would fancy a t-shirt in the shape of "Stayed until the end". John Ward posted an in image (that I was forced to screenshot and manhandle because I couldn't find a way to effectively reshare it) that goes sort of in the direction that I'm thinking of. There was another image that had a similar style, can't remember where I saw it, if anyone knows, please don't hesitate to share the source. If there's someone already doing this kind of initiative or am planning to, I'd appreciate a link to it. If not, well, then I know. Moderators; please move to appropriate section if this is in the wrong place.

John Ward turned me onto this new social network, and I'm really liking it a lot. The interface is smooth as silk and, though it's still under development with the official launch not happening till March 5th, it's hugely better than Minds, MeWe, or anything on the Dispora network of which I'm on Pluspora. https://YouMe.Social https://YouMe.Social

Migrating communities from Google+ to Discourse I wrote an import script to move Google+ content into Discourse, and used it to import about a dozen Google+ communities into the forum.makerforums.info Discourse instance. Feel free to look at that site to see what the import looks like, and to join if you are a maker! Importing Friends+Me into Discourse preserves both Google login and community content with continued ownership of that content in the new community for users who choose google login to their Discourse forum as at least one authentication method. For more information, see the original request for this functionality at https://meta.discourse.org/t/bounty-google-private-communities-export-screenscraper-importer/108029 and ask questions there so that they survive the gpluscalypse. [Updated 7 March to reflect current status.] https://meta.discourse.org/t/bounty-google-private-communities-export-screenscraper-importer/108029/11

Migrating communities from Google+ to Discourse I wrote an import script to move Google+ content into Discourse. It is working in my development environment, and I'll be offering it in a PR to Discourse. Importing Friends+Me (perhaps also the eventual Google Community Takeout format?) into Discourse will be able to preserve both Google login and community content with continued ownership of that content in the new community for users who choose google login to their Discourse forum as at least one authentication method. ~I have been hacking away at an importer for several maker communities moving to forum.makerforums.info and there's also a bounty that a professional Discourse developer might be interested in, so between us it is likely to happen. Don't count on me (this is my first exposure to Ruby) but feel free to sweeten the bounty pot at https://meta.discourse.org/t/bounty-google-private-communities-export-screenscraper-importer/108029/11 if you want to make a profe...

Amazing!!!! Google just updated the G+ app in the Apple store

I have multiple G+ Communities which were created for work tasks and functions under my personal account before my organization joined G Suite for Education. I have been trying and trying to figure out how to get the ownership of the content switched to my work account, or alternatively to export and upload the data into a new community owned by the correct account. I've walked through the export process multiple times, but am still waiting on the download links from Google. I understand that can take a while, but for one of them it should be super tiny — a custom export just for one small mission-critical community page. I've been digging around online for info about how to do this, and I've also worked through our org's IT support folk (again multiple times). I must be missing something, right? I found a lot of discussion of tools to import the data to other places(MeWe, LifeCloud, Wordpress, Blogger, Medium, ...) but I don't see a criteria tool to help with a dec...

Reading this discussion of MeWe, PlusPora and other alternatives, I'm thinking I'm not interested in investing my energy in another proprietary or niche platform unless (1) my friends are ALREADY there (2) It has some potential for mass appeal or (3) there's something else really fantastic about it. MeWe, PlusPora etc. don't seem to hit all those buttons. I'm active on Facebook on a Group, Things Mitch Wagner Saw. I have a blog at mitchwagner.com . I'm on Twitter, @mitchwagner. My blog automatically syndicates to Tumblr, mitchwagner.tumblr.com . The blog automatically generates an RSS feed of course, and a newsletter http://eepurl.com/YlKbH And I'm active on Reddit and getting active on Hacker News. All of those things are either nonproprietary -- not somebody else's platform -- or they have mass appeal. And that's enough to keep me busy.

While saying #farewellgoogleplus here some boring thoughts of mine I've tried #mewe along with #pluspora 3 times and ended up deleting my accounts. I don't see point of this alternative social media thing on my way of using. I was using #googleplus because it was seo friendly and connected to my blogger and I didn't had #instagram back then. I've never had more than 900 followers and 5-10 likes on my best post in G+ ... I've never made any friends here or anything. At least in instagram my posts reach 40-50 people. In Twitter I have some interesting contacts like cast of Frasier and few great artists and at least in Facebook I have some family and arguable friends. What will I have on an alternative social media? In mewe there was already a semi naked girl who getting a lot of attention. Why people ever want a boring guy like me with landscape photos and renders? I think I'll let my G+ demise and don't sweat on a making everything from scratch in an alterna...

Pentru cei care sunt deja in MeWe... In momentul crearii unui link la o poza din google Photos aplicatia creeaza automat un album care contine doar acea poza, dar albumul nu are un nume sugestiv ci doar data crearii lui. Poti sa mergi sa editezi acel album prin intrucerea unei denumiri. Atunci cand postezi in MeWe (paste acel link copiat) o imagine provenita din Google Photos (link-ul din Photos) ti se deschide o fereastra in care poti sterge textele pe care le insereaza automat, ca in exemplul ilustrat mai jos. In acest mod nu esti nevoit sa-ti stochezi pozele sau clipurile video in MeWe ci doar in Google Photos si postarea arata "curata".

DON'T PANIC Please keep in mind that you can live your life without G+ or a G+ alternative. You may not like it, (I know I don't), but you can. Download your data. You can continue to look for a G+ alternative long after G+ closes their doors.

I've put together a site called Friend Xone which has groups, pages, forums, etc. It's nothing special, but it is an alternative to anyone who wants something like Facebook but without the spying and selling of your data. https://www.friendxone.com/ Note ** It was created for my family initially, but it is open to the public. https://www.friendxone.com/

Originally shared by Kent Crispin Well, I've been playing around with my blog ( mosqueeto.net ) and got the WP => diaspora and WP => mastodon plugins working -- it's really pretty nifty. I finally got around to opening up the blog for user registrations, and immediately got several from people I never heard of. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that... But while thinking about it, it occurred to me that a wordpress blog would be a fine place for a g+ community to migrate to. WP themes exist that are sort of like g+. There can be lots of registered users, and users can have assigned roles: administrator, editor, author, contributor, and subscriber. These seem like a rough superset of the roles that exist in g+ communities. Free hosting is available at wordpress.com , and there are endless alternatives for paid hosting....

Originally shared by Frank D The YouMe.Social Android app seems to be working. An announcement was made that improvements are coming in March. As I said before, I prefer YouMe over MeWe. The creator of the new social media platform, Jamez Frondeskias is trying to bring in more G+ like features, including communities. Please note: The only way to sign into the mobile app is with email & password so save yourself some grief when creating a YouMe account. Skip the Google/Facebook option. Use email instead. When you get to YouMe, look me up.

tl;dr Stop just complaining about MeWe, it's not productive , instead be sure to also start recommending something other than MeWe that works better. (edited the tl;dr: I don't mind complaints if they're used productively to point people to other places that work better. Complaining just because you can isn't productive to the people trying to figure out where to go, not where not to go) Ok community, let's play a game. People have split opinions about MeWe. Those that seem to like it like it for the familiarity of the system, the way it works, and the fact that it feels "complete"... ish anyway. It's a bareable... or really, so far, the only substantial replacement for G+, especially for communities. ( edit : that I know of ... which is where I'd like to be enlightened as well) Now the people who dislike it, and there's enough of them with legitimate concerns that are really vocal about it on every post about MeWe ... instead of yet agai...

Action: Content Reuse Licensing of your G+ contributions A few weeks ago, Filip H.F. Slagter posted a "Licensing details for republication of textual content submitted by me to Google+". It provides permission, under specific scope for others to archive his work on Google+: https://plus.google.com/112064652966583500522/posts/atqNXYS4FSp This is an excellent idea, and I encourage others to do this. There are a number of questions as to what license you should use, and how you should apply it. I've been thinking about this, and am going to suggest a basic approach. The TL;DR: Using the CC BY-ND-NC license should be a safe minimum start, add it to your pinned SignalFlare post, your G+ "About" page, and an off-G+ location. The Creative Commons licenses are a well-designed, widely-used, and well-understood set of licenses. FiXato is using one of them. The full set is listed and described here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Considerations For the purp...

The new social network OpenBook starts the alpha to 8. March. On 1 April the beta starts! All contents of Google+ can be imported probably. There will be Community's from the outset. Here the official YouTube channel of OpenBook! Check this out! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUAZjrj85EoucWDNM2JZtOw Here you can register for the beta: https://www.openbook.social/en/home If you want to be part of the project from 8.3. onwards, you can do so by supporting the project with a donation of 10€. You can find more information here: https://medium.com/openbook-org/openbook-post-campaign-update-3-c95734e1f99d Oh, yeah, I forgot. Everything according to the European Data Protection Act . https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUAZjrj85EoucWDNM2JZtOw

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF MEWE AHEAD I think I know the main problem of MeWe. It's Mark Weinstein. Everything about him. His strange obsession with Facebook, his insistence toward the Libertarian idea of free speech, and his awful business sense. Mewe, while not completely original, is still a pretty cool concept. I like getting into groups to talk and chat about things that interests me because it's fun. This is what a social network should be about. This is the only reason why people join social networks, to have fun, talk, share pictures, etc. And yet Mark Weinstein talks about everything BUT the fun aspects of MeWe. He'll talk about privacy, which is great but not a feature. He'll talk about Facebook's faults. He'll talk about MeWe Pro. He'll talk about custom emoji packs. He'll talk about being a free speech proponent (who cares). He'll talk about "the good guys". He'll talk about MeWe as if it's a revolution (LOL). He'll talk a...

Via Filip H.F. Slagter Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Blogger Google Plus Comments tool merged into Plexodus-Tools Just a quick development update: while progress has been rather low the past weeks as I've struggling with health issues again, I've finally merged the #GitHub #Gist ¹ I'd made for retrieving Google+-based comments on Blogger blogs, into the main #PlexodusTools ² git repository, along with its commit history. Still need to merge the Gist's README into the existing one from Plexodus-Tools, and update some of the documentation though, but at least all further development on it should occur in the Plexodus-Tools repo, rather than spread over both projects. I need to hurry up though for it to be of any use, as the APIs will be turned off in less than 18 days... Time passes by way too quickly... So, keep following https://github.com/FiXato/Plexodus-Tools/ to keep track of its progress. ¹: Blogger Google Plus Comments CLI retrieval tool Gist: h...

#signalflare Originally shared by Andrew Hatchett MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT - PLEASE READ You are invited to join us on the new User2User Discord Server * Just use this link: * https://discord.gg/papxh4W In addition to the blogs previously set up, the G+ User2User-LIVE! Community now has a second home. Michael Daniels and I have, with the help of a few others, been testing Discord. What we have found is a platform that offers much of what we wanted in the original G+ communities. Some of the advantages of Discord are: 1. Customization of Roles 2. Pinning multiple messages (posts) 3. Multiple text and voice channels If you aren't familiar with Discord, this short video will help you get started: How To Setup And Use Discord https://discord.gg/papxh4W

Originally shared by David Anderson To all refugees from Google Plus I am moving to both MeWe and Pluspora; Over time, I'll settle on one of them. Would love to follow any of you from my circles if you're on either. HMU in the comments or PM me with your contact info on either MeWe or Pluspora. I'll specifically be tagging some of you so that you see this post. I'm saddened, traumatized, and empty at the prospect of leaving/losing Google Plus. Here's a toast to the great conversations and support we've had on G+. MeWe developers are planning on adding G+ features soon, such as Circles, Collections. MeWe seems to have a look similar to G+. Pluspora is a Pod within the Diaspora federation and is composed of G+ refugees. Still a newbie at learning to find people and similar interests. MeWe: mewe.com/i/davidanderson63 Pluspora: daudimajozi@pluspora.com

To anyone worried about replicating the function of "Circles" on another network -- as I myself was -- the closest thing I've found are MeWe's "Groups." they can function exactly like your cirrcles -- where followers can "view only," with comment privileges, or you can set it up so that followers can also post their own items to it. Just posting this as an FYI -- as for me, myself, I've been really concerned about how to replicate the way I've become accustomed to sharing here on the Ploos. If you want to compare the two, my MeWe acct is https://mewe.com/i/reverendjesus ; you can compare my groups to the communities on this profile.

Image Download Issues FWIW - I set out to download some G+ photos (directly from my G+ collection) in order to relocate them. I got one and then the next several only partially download and I get "Failed- Network Error". So... I hope I get to all the remaining images I want to (easily) download and relocate - not many left, but it feels like the machine is getting wobbly. I have no idea if there's any impact on "takeout" (or if it's a result of high demand), but just wanted to note this. "I see things" - including this - as Google + functionality (from widgets to downloads) sputters and fades away. :( If this is a harbinger (along with all the other bumps and fits)... Just another reminder IMM to finish up packing and saving ASAP if still doing it, as the end is not only near, it is here. Grab what you want and what you can!! Nice (but sad) to see so many people and groups already safely landed in a new safe haven, hopefully more responsive to h...

#signalflare Originally shared by Michael K Johnson I finally got all my old blog content, public G+ postings, and some other bits of writing together at https://musings.danlj.org/ and I'm linking to various web presences in my About page: https://musings.danlj.org/about/ #signalflare https://musings.danlj.org/

DO NOT NEGATIVELY COMMENT ON THREADS WHERE PEOPLE ARE ANNOUNCING THEIR DESTINATIONS, NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK OF THE SITE THEY ARE MOVING TO. I have started removing comments, I'll start to ban/block soon. If someone has made a decision and is announcing that decision, the time for discussion or persuasion is over. Wish them well, wish them good luck, don't say anything negative about the site they choose or the person for choosing it. If you want to Private Message the person, off the community, and explain your point of view, that's up to you . Here, we respect people's choices. If someone says they are going to move to FaceBook, I consider that a major mistake, but I will not say that in their Signal Flare message and I will not try to change their mind after they have announced their plans. Be civil and allow people to make their own choices or leave the community because we don't need badgering of people who are announcing their final destinations. I hope thi...

Avand in vedere inchiderea iminenta a retelei G+ am considerat corect sa aleg o metoda mai sigura pentru definirea profilului public al unei persoane si anume crearea unei pagini web gazduita gratuit in google Drive, usor de creat cu ajutorul uneltei Google Sites. Pentru ca deocamdata nu m-am hotarat pe ce retea o sa migrez am plasat link-ul la G+ sub avatar, link pe care-l voi modifica in functie de reteaua aleasa (MeWe, Openbook sau ....). Cred ca solutia unei astfel de pagini (un mic site cu o pagina vizibila) este una la indemana independenta de vreo retea sociala. Google Sites - > https://sites.google.com/new?pli=1 Exemplu - > https://sites.google.com/view/linda-motoiu

The most active and moderated Street Art also moved to MeWe. (They did try others though). loulou duagir https://mewe.com/join/streetartunlimited https://mewe.com/join/streetartunlimited

So G+ consumer is shutting down, yet our Gmail accounts will remain. Obviously, no matter how hard one tries, they'll sooner or later be forced in one way or another to support massive companies like Google. I simply don't see any way around it. This got me thinking about shutting down G+ consumer version as a cost vs benefits issue. G+ shuts down vs Google still retaining a majority of emails where they can basically get whatever usage they need from the accounts themselves, without having to continue putting money into the consumer site. Am I wrong? Am I simplifying this, or something? Let me know your thoughts.

Just to announce the migration of my 3 communities to MeWe. Hope some will join. It would be nice if you share this with your contacts interested in Science in general, Physics or Artificial Intelligence / Machine and Deep Learning. Thanks. Originally shared by Sebastian Fernandez Alberdi MeWe Migration Hi, after some time of testing and not finding a perfect new home, I’ve decided to give MeWe an opportunity. I’m the member who posts more, so I guess everyone was waiting for me to decide. That doesn’t mean others can try to start a fork on other social networks. I hope you all come and contribute with your posts or even moderating the groups. The aim is to keep the same philosophy of heavy moderation to avoid spamming, self promotion, abuse, poor quality or repeated content, off topic/controversial/pseudoscience, religion, politics, memes, etc. At the beginning all members will be limited so a moderator has to approve new memberships and posts. After that members will be upgraded to c...