On Social Media

I just noticed something interesting. I am convinced that the way that Google will dive into the future of social media is by serving as a profile repository. A needed element for the future that I see developing. This finding further cemented that belief. Besides the G+ identity, we all have an “About me” identify in the site. If you go to any surviving community that had non-GSuite users, click in the user list (they are all still there) and click on a member profile, you will see their “About me” page. Some of them have granted public access to their list of internet addresses.

[ To Plusiverse Community ]Cross posting both ways. Greetings from Atlanta, GA There is another (smaller) community with the same purpose as this one. Good to have found you via a comment from a post in a soon to disappear community.

My last serious post.

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

I hope this saves a few of you some time and aggravation. Originally shared by Edgar Brown I carried out my last data export from G+ and with little more than 24hrs to go, here is my experience. In hopes that it will help some of the procrastinators.. 1450 posts more than 6000 comments, first post in February 2012. I was obviously into cameras back then. Forget about Google TakeOut in any format. But particularly in html format. It will save the text of your posts and some information around it, but most of it will be gone with G+, as it contains links to G+ addresses. This is also true for the Json format. I ended up using Google + Exporter (and shelling out the $20 because I have more than 800 posts in my stream). But, although the archives are more complete and the export controls are much more detailed than Google's Takeout, that is still not enough. As many of the media links head back into g+. After trying at the several formats offered, I ended up choosing Wordpress for th...

I am just getting "Error 500" when I attempt to download my takeout archives (same error in multiple pages/accounts) Anyone else experiencing this problem?

G+ death might spur much needed innovation, but right now it really sucks. Moderators: I hope this does not rub anyone the wrong way, I will gladly disable comments if you so desire. Originally shared by Edgar Brown As G+ goes away, it has made me look at what the social media landscape will look like in the not so distant future. It is rather clear to me that FB will soon be the past, it might remain as ubiquitous as e-mail but just as e-mail it will be something we suffer through not a place we just visit for fun. Google likely saw the writing on the wall and, instead of migrating its aging platform into the future, decided to avoid all of the growing pains that the mere idea of social media is undergoing at the moment. As platforms become larger their influence in society grows with them, the need for censorship, editorializing, and just plain policing grows with them. The deleterious effect FB had on the last US presidential election (and many other events and movements around the ...

This is where we are clearly headed. The tools already exist, their use is still in its infancy http://www.digital-web.com/articles/portable_social_networks_building_blocks_of_a_social_web/

Originally shared by Edgar Brown Blogger comment section. Anyone knows what is the migration path for the Blogger comment section? Google made G+ the default comment tool in Blogger and I have not seen any announcement/notice of how this is going to change.

I don't think this has been considered. But this is at least better than a glorified e-mail list manager. The StackExchange is a family of decentralized individual communities that use a question-answer format. It is a reputation-based system in which privileges escalate as you use the site. This might be an adequate format for many of G+ communities. https://stackexchange.com/sites

On Karma and moderation One topic that I have not seen mentioned regarding any community is "karma points" the way these are implemented in SlashDot. (A very old "social" website that has not been mentioned). In SlashDot you can gain or loose karma points by posting or commenting and by your posts being evaluated by others. As you have more karma you gain privileges within the community, for example to post or help moderate posts. Moderation, being organic, is carried out by automatic aggregation of moderator responses. Moderators have the choice to comment or moderate, but not both. Moderation is kept in check by the meta-moderation of moderator's actions. That way the community itself, by its own actions, sets and cements its own rules. – I just found out that Reddit also uses them, but I am not sure if it is the same implementation. – Slack and other technical communities have similar concepts. – I am not sure about this, but Minds's use of cryptocurren...

Not sure this has been shared in this community. Originally shared by Stephan Beal Perhaps of interest to those evaluating MeWe as a possible new home in a post-G+ world... MeWe , it turns out, cannot possibly function as anyone's central public online presence platform (i.e., a place where one can point arbitrary people to and say "that's my online home"). A post by Mewe earlier today (which i can't link to because mewe doesn't support inbound links to posts) clarified that their pending addition of "public" pages means "public within mewe", as opposed to "public within the internet". What follows is copy/pasted from a comment i made in a mewe-side discussion on that topic this evening (Central Euro Time), explaining why mewe cannot possibly change to become the platform i was hoping to find (specifically, a replacement for my One True Online Presence, which is currently G+)... (again, i'd link directly to the discussion if ...

Well...but isn’t he a founder of MeWe? This is still far in the future but the basic concept does not seem that different from diaspora* or any of the pod implementations in the Federation or the Fediverse. But if you are a programmer this might be the opportunity to get the right set of features in. Originally shared by Greg Batmarx Creator of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee has unveiled his plans to create a new decentralized web where the data will be controlled by the users. Tim Berners-Lee is known for creating the world wide web, i.e., the internet you know today. More than two decades later, Tim is working to free the internet from the clutches of corporate giants and give the power back to the people via a decentralized web. Berners-Lee was unhappy with the way ‘powerful forces’ of the internet handle data of the users for their own agenda. So he started working on his own open source project Solid “to restore the power and agency of individuals on the web.” Solid changes ...

The problem I see is this. The guy running WeMe appears to be a loud Libertarian. Despite their solid looking TOS, that is not a good sign. The pluspora/Diaspora model will collapse under spam and illicit/abusive content as soon as it gets above the radar. G+ will continue for G Suite at $5/mo, which is a reasonable price, but it isn't obvious how to manage payments.

This speaks poorly of what to expect of MeWe when it comes to Spam and Trolls.... Originally shared by Lauren Weinstein The problem I see is this. The guy running WeMe appears to be a loud Libertarian. Despite their solid looking TOS, that is not a good sign. The pluspora/Diaspora model will collapse under spam and illicit/abusive content as soon as it gets above the radar. G+ will continue for G Suite at $5/mo, which is a reasonable price, but it isn't obvious how to manage payments.

I just want to point out that this is a perfect opportunity for spammers and scammers to get a load of personal information and even passwords. Be careful what sites you trust your credentials to and don’t reuse your password! With the volume of people migrating it is bound to happen.