This is how the social network of the future will start.
Not a social networking site by itself, just a way to keep the social network together. One place to concisely offer information about your presence in social sites.
I wish I had paid attention to this site sooner.
#SignalFlare
https://wheretofind.me/@Edgar_Brown
Not a social networking site by itself, just a way to keep the social network together. One place to concisely offer information about your presence in social sites.
I wish I had paid attention to this site sooner.
#SignalFlare
https://wheretofind.me/@Edgar_Brown
I agree that a level of indirection is a good idea. But it's not that new, we have the (rather bad nowadays) PGP key servers or nowadays keybase.io - Keybase
ReplyDeleteJürgen Christoffel The beauty of this implementation is its sheer simplicity.
ReplyDeleteNo frills, no distractions, one purpose and one purpose only. A simple one-page view of where to find you and how active are you in those places.
I have wondered how keychains are distributed, that makes a lot of sense, but it seems like one more site to add to the mix...
Before wheretofind, there was also AboutMe and a couple of others you can probably still find listed here in my G+ profile. They all died a silent death... but maybe they were just too much ahead of their time.
ReplyDeleteI agree though that some form of aggregation service would be the way to go, but I just don't think there's a valid business model in it... at least not till people end up being willing to pay for those things.
Filip H.F. Slagter NPR and the Red Cross have been around for a few decades surviving on donations, and an extremely simple site like this should be able to survive for mere fractions of a cent per user per year.
ReplyDeleteirrespective of cost of maintaining it, sites like wheretofind.me are fragile. one guy decides he wants to drop off the grid, poof! it's gone. it's best to have redundancy. (and of course it would be nice if Archive.org kept periodic copies.)
ReplyDeleteJohn Douglas Porter You can say the same thing about Pluspora, or about Wikipedia when it started. But everything has to start somewhere. It would be much better if they addressed that fragility from the beginning and not end up like the cryptocurrency platform whose owner died with all of the site passwords locked in his head.
ReplyDeleteFilip H.F. Slagter isn't about.me still around?
ReplyDeletelaurie corzett What does MeWe have to do with anything in this post?
ReplyDeleteBrad Borland yes, though I had to go through a way too lengthy 'get started' wizard again to basically have it use the same data I had already entered years ago, meanwhile getting pushed to upgrade to Pro, and 8 USD monthly for a cname setup to use your own domain, imho is way too expensive for what is basically a landing page and could also be done with a nice template and the free Github Pages.
ReplyDeleteEdgar Brown MeWe users have a cult-like tendency to spam their worst chat & group app without trustable privacy app/platform everywhere they see fit.
ReplyDeletelaurie corzett don't use SignalFlare posts to promote other platforms. This community isn't meant as a place where MeWe can be spammed at every opportunity.
ReplyDeleteping Edward Morbius John Lewis Cindy Brown
Edgar Brown Not quite. Pluspora (Diaspora*) is distributed. And open-sourced.
ReplyDeleteFilip H.F. Slagter do you suggest wheretofind.me as a better choice?
ReplyDeleteBrad Borland I haven't tried it because I'd rather go back to self-hosting my own solutions and keep everything under my own control, at a single space.
ReplyDeleteAdopt the POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) principle.
will it let me comment now?
ReplyDeleteapparently I posted on the wrong thread -- G+ is being wonky for me today
I'm sorry to have inadvertently started a controversy.
btw MeWe is not my preferred place, but I have been posting my profile there on posts where people I want to stay in touch with say they are there without posting their info.
Filip H.F. Slagter yeah I agree. But it does seem interesting for those who are still searching around for a new home. I was just wondering if people like one over the other.
ReplyDeleteBrad Borland read the OP, or at the very least the site name you copied before you ask a silly question.
ReplyDeleteWhereToFind.me is not a social platform at all. At least not how we understand them.
It serves one purpose and one purpose only. With absolutely no frills nor bells-and-whistles and the simplest user interface implementation that I have seen (not even an "ok" button to be seen).
Edgar Brown I think you misinterpreted his comments. :) I don't think he considered them a social platform.
ReplyDeleteWhereToFind (and AboutMe), while not social platforms themselves, are still a useful resource for "those who are still searching around for a new home", as it shows them where their G+ contacts are heading, and thus can serve as inspiration for new places to find for themselves.
Filip H.F. Slagter Oh, I see.... Total lack of context there. I guess the comparison was with about.me not MeWe.
ReplyDeleteIn that case Brad Borland yes. about.me is a fancy presentation card that is intended to convey an image of who you are,
WhereToFind.me is simply a redirection page.Nothing fancy about it. It is not an actual presence on the web.
Edgar Brown I didn't think my question was that silly.
ReplyDeleteEdgar Brown yeah, it seems WTFme is what AboutMe used to be like. From what I remember when I first signed up for AboutMe years ago, it was just a place where you could put an introductory text and link all your profiles.
ReplyDeleteAnd I just found out that I won't be able to hide even if I tried...
ReplyDeleteweb.archive.org - Edgar Brown - Google+
not sure why the arguing. I have a profile on both. 🙂
ReplyDeleteThank you for this, Edgar! I've bookmarked this so I can post my "contact" information later! (It won't be much - I don't use a lot of sites - but I like the idea of a central directory that isn't F******k!)
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