Things you can still do to help / prepare, for yourself and others
As we enter the final few weeks of Google+, there are some actions and activities you can do which would help generally.
First, be sure that you've addressed all your own needs. Post your forwarding information, hashtag "SignalFlare". Encourage your contacts to do the same. Export your Google+ content if you want to preserve it. Explore and settle on at least an interim home NOW. Collect forwarding information from your contacts.
Help get the word out. About the Google+ Mass Migration community, about #PlexodusWiki (https://social.antefriguserat.de) and #PlexodusReddit (https://reddit.com/r/plexodus), and most especially to Communities which have been active but don't yet have a migration plan or destination settled. There are ways to migrate and preserve content, if that's desired.
I really can't emphasize this item highly enough: Outreach on and through G+ is really, really, really hard. There are no central points of contact, Google's shut many of those down, others have been resistant to helping get the word out. Your word-of-mouth is the most effective communications channel available.
I'll be posting a database of about 100k larger (100+ members) active (within the previous month) communities which should include most of those that really are worth preserving.
Help with documentation, welcoming people to new locations, data migration suggestions, and listing forwarding information for users and groups (who want to be known). Much of that lives at #PlexodusWiki, and we could really use help there.
Sign up to or point your Newsreader (RSS/Atom) to #PlexodusReddit That's going to be the main point for future discussion. There's also a Friends+ Me Google+ Exporter subreddit which can offer assistance for people looking to import their G+ data after the shutdown.
Forum: https://reddit.com/r/plexodus
RSS: https://reddit.com/r/plexodus/.rss
That also contains many links on alternative platforms, descriptions, discussion, and other related items (many though not all selected from posts here).
There's likely to be an additional G+MM post archive, though where that will be hasn't been settled yet. (A good way to help settle that is to volunteer to set it up ;-) There is a test version up already.
The ArchiveTeam are working to preserve public Google+ content. That process is just about to get started, and you can help collect data by running a Warrior VM on your own computer. If you've got fat pipes and can spare some bandwidth, all the better.
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google%2B
https://www.archiveteam.org/
You can grab the Warrior VM here:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Warrior
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus
As we enter the final few weeks of Google+, there are some actions and activities you can do which would help generally.
First, be sure that you've addressed all your own needs. Post your forwarding information, hashtag "SignalFlare". Encourage your contacts to do the same. Export your Google+ content if you want to preserve it. Explore and settle on at least an interim home NOW. Collect forwarding information from your contacts.
Help get the word out. About the Google+ Mass Migration community, about #PlexodusWiki (https://social.antefriguserat.de) and #PlexodusReddit (https://reddit.com/r/plexodus), and most especially to Communities which have been active but don't yet have a migration plan or destination settled. There are ways to migrate and preserve content, if that's desired.
I really can't emphasize this item highly enough: Outreach on and through G+ is really, really, really hard. There are no central points of contact, Google's shut many of those down, others have been resistant to helping get the word out. Your word-of-mouth is the most effective communications channel available.
I'll be posting a database of about 100k larger (100+ members) active (within the previous month) communities which should include most of those that really are worth preserving.
Help with documentation, welcoming people to new locations, data migration suggestions, and listing forwarding information for users and groups (who want to be known). Much of that lives at #PlexodusWiki, and we could really use help there.
Sign up to or point your Newsreader (RSS/Atom) to #PlexodusReddit That's going to be the main point for future discussion. There's also a Friends+ Me Google+ Exporter subreddit which can offer assistance for people looking to import their G+ data after the shutdown.
Forum: https://reddit.com/r/plexodus
RSS: https://reddit.com/r/plexodus/.rss
That also contains many links on alternative platforms, descriptions, discussion, and other related items (many though not all selected from posts here).
There's likely to be an additional G+MM post archive, though where that will be hasn't been settled yet. (A good way to help settle that is to volunteer to set it up ;-) There is a test version up already.
The ArchiveTeam are working to preserve public Google+ content. That process is just about to get started, and you can help collect data by running a Warrior VM on your own computer. If you've got fat pipes and can spare some bandwidth, all the better.
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google%2B
https://www.archiveteam.org/
You can grab the Warrior VM here:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Warrior
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus
Comments
Post a Comment
New comments on this blog are moderated. If you do not have a Google identity, you are welcome to post anonymously. Your comments will appear here after they have been reviewed. Comments with vulgarity will be rejected.