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Also now on friendica ( social.isurf.ca ) but very new there: hiero@social.isurf.ca Originally shared by Alistair Langsford #signalflare ( ...now Google deigns to tell me my Google+ account is going away on April 2, 2019...) Where I'm gonna be at Twitter: @hiero should find me, use it a bit to browse & see whats happening. Pluspora: in case it takes off, I'm hiero@pluspora.com Since it only takes a few people sometimes to have a meaningful discussion and create a community, if anyone is on or considering going to pluspora, let me know. I think an alternative to MeWe would be good. Having said that, I'm getting the hang of MeWe somewhat, so if you're going there and want to keep in touch, hit me up there (see below) MeWe: http://www.mewe.com/i/alistairlangsford

I’ve tried a google takeout. My activity has been light and only maybe the last 18 months so not a lot to backup. I’m not a blogger and have no website to restore to so i went with html format. I can see all the text of posts made and comment threads but saved collections and so on all seem to end up with links back to plus.google.xxxx addresses. My understanding is that’ll disappear or become inaccessible when g+ closes. Is this correct? Do i have to save images manually? Or do i have to use json format and maybe also the other 3rd party tool? In which case how do i look at the content inside a json file? I thought I understood things better but obviously not. Rather confused at present.

Something potentially of interest for those interested in MeWe. UPDATE: this is/was just found by me by accident, and seemed like it might provide a different point of view for people trying to decide for or against MeWe. I am myself not on MeWe, and haven’t decided where I’ll go after G+ shutters. Perhaps nowhere. If you want to ask further information, or dispute the content, I suggest you follow up the *original* posting. Originally shared by Tessa Schlesinger Mewe was used throughout the last election by Bernie Sanders supporters. Bernie Sanders also has an account on mewe.com . Mark Weinstein, the owner of MEWE writes for the Huffington Post - something he is hardly likely to do if he were a far right supporter. This is Bernie Sanders' page on mewe. Bernie posts there regularly.. https://mewe.com/p/berniesanders This is Mark Weinstein, the CEO of mewe, writing for HuffPost, and he certainly sounds more like a Democrat than a Republican to me. He is, however, a Libertarian. ...

More on the recent tumblr story. There are more general issues (according to this post in the Atlantic) than just Tumblr and “adult content”. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/tumblr-adult-content-porn/577471/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/tumblr-adult-content-porn/577471/