On Social Media

Found this, posted in May 2012... Dealing With the Eventual Collapse of Social Networks "You should treat every website like it might not be around forever." Now, we know... https://news.slashdot.org/story/12/05/08/0140257/dealing-with-the-eventual-collapse-of-social-networks

Curious about @pixelfed? Instance @pixelfed has re-opened registrations! See what a free, open-source, federated alternative to Instagram has to offer. https://pixelfed.social/register #pixelfed #fediverse https://pixelfed.social/register

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

FYI, if you like African Music or want to test interactions between #WordPress blogs & the Fediverse via #ActivityPub (Work In Progress!) Originally shared by Didier J. MARY Ho, ho, ho... it's not Xmas anymore... But AMF Beta1 is up and running ! https://amf.didiermary.fr OK, I won't tell the story again... G+ is closing down soon (April 2nd!)... As the "founder" of the AMF community, I had to choose between moving the content we published for the last 7 years or say it goodbye... Since January, I was busy importing posts (with the help of F+M Google+ Exporter to the standalone WordPress I host on my domain, mostly the posts from me or my own pages (KoToNTeeJ, Telser...). So far, I've cleaned 1074 posts , managed 170 #tags, and prepared 153 drafts from content I want to review before posting (BTW, deleted 150+ from some obsolete or duplicate content I posted since 2012). I still have 700+ posts to curate in the G+ community... Your posts... But the site is ...

Not directly related to the end of G+, but contains some interesting info... https://medium.com/s/story/google-workers-lost-a-leader-but-the-fight-will-continue-c487aa5fd2ba

Hi all, I'm migrating my collections and community (African Music Forum) to standalone WordPress blogs. As I'm checking other social venues, I joined Mastodon to discover the Fediverse... And I discovered that there are 2 plugins to connect your WP blog to Mastodon: ActivityPub & Pterotype. Installed both (not at the same time) on a sandboxed WP, and I will investigate more to better understand what they're doing, but this is promising, isn't it? More info: https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-medium/ https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-medium/

Buffer will stop supporting G+ when the API shuts down... Logical step...