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I have developed CSS styles to provide multi-column streams for Diaspora, Mastodon, Hubzilla, and Tumblr. It's possible that the Hubzilla version will work on Friendica with little or no modification. Anyone want to try it? Originally shared by Isaac Kuo G+ style Multi-Column Streams in pluspora, Mastodon, Hubzilla, and Tumblr I've put together CSS styles which provide multi-column Streams in various social media platforms. This has a huge effect on browsing speed. To use them, you: 1) Download Stylus plugin (Chrome, Firefox or Opera): https://add0n.com/stylus.html 2) Install desired Multi-Column style from here: https://userstyles.org/users/773238 Enjoy! #diaspora #mastodon #hubzilla #tumblr #pluspora #tips #tip (Putting them all here in one convenient place.)

New simplified instructions and new enhancements (such as multi-column comments) Originally shared by Isaac Kuo Multi-column Stream and Comments in Diaspora https://userstyles.org/styles/168773/3-column-diaspora Multi-column stream and comments boost browsing speed and look better on wide screens. This plugin/style gives you a multi-column stream, albeit the tiling is a bit crude. The enhancements are: TALLER NOTIFICATIONS DROPDOWN (Doc Edward Morbius) EXPAND ALL POSTS (Gible Fog) TRIPLE COLUMN STREAM (Filip H.F. "FiXato" Slagter) DOUBLE COLUMN COMMENTS (Isaac Ji Kuo) To install: 1) Install Stylus plugin for Chrome, Firefox, or Opera. see download links here: https://add0n.com/stylus.html 2) Install the "3 Column Diaspora" style from here: https://userstyles.org/styles/168773/3-column-diaspora 3) Optional: If you want to delete some enhancements or tweak columns/widths, edit the style (under S icon, select "Manage") If you aren't using the pluspora.com...

Originally shared by Isaac Kuo Multi-column Stream in diaspora! One thing I like about Google+ is the multi-column stream view. It means I can browse articles more quickly than with a single column view, with less scrolling effort. Conversely, it means my followers can browse articles more quickly, so more people see my posts. It's great! More engagement, more enjoyment, less time spent. Diaspora has many features I like, being similar to early G+. But it has just a single column stream view...until now! It turns out that adding a small bit of CSS code gives a crude multi-column stream view. It's not neat Masonry tiling, with weird gaps. But it's good enough for me. The steps to do this are: 1) Use Chrome or Chromium 2) Install the Stylus plugin (search for "stylus chrome") 3) Go to pluspora.com (or whatever diaspora pod you're on) 4) Click on the “S” plugin icon in the upper right; select Write Style for pluspora.com 5) Paste the code: ``` #main-stream .stre...

Opinions on Dreamwidth? I've been curious about Dreamwidth since it seems to be purposefully friendly to female bloggers and a number of bloggers I've been following have moved there and like it. It's an open source fork of LiveJournal, I think, although it is still a sort of closed garden site I think (I'm not 100% sure of this, but in any case doesn't federate with other social media sites). I've pretty much settled on diaspora or other federated platforms, but even so I'm kind of curious about what Dreamwidth is like. Like how's its Stream view? Hashtag following or searches? How's discovery - finding folks with similar interests, not just people you already knew? Thanks!

Originally shared by Isaac Kuo So, there's this big tumblr-pocalypse going on. Basically, tumblr is messing things up and a ton of tumblr users are looking to mass migrate. So, as we're looking for alternatives it may be a good idea to look out for common goals/desires/etc with tumblr escapees. So what is tumblr like, anyway? Are you familiar with USENET? Think of tumblr as USENET organized with hashtags instead of USENET groups. The fundamental method of interaction is to "reblog" a post, which quotes the parent post and you add commentary to the bottom. This is what makes tumblr a great generator of humor and commentary in a shared space. Even if you've never been on tumblr, you've probably seen screenshots from amusing or insightful tumblr posts. The nested quoted text format is distinctive. There's something interesting/funny, and it's followed by replies which get better and better. That's the magic of tumblr, and you just don't see the sa...

In my case, the bulk of my actually active followers went to a diaspora pod ( pluspora.com ). Only a few hundred out of thousands, but the level of engagement is about the same. The reason there's no automated way to transfer contacts is because Google+ is a closed system. Back in the day, before G+ even existed, there were attempts to make integrated social media clients that interoperated between Twitter and Facebook etc. But then, Twitter and Facebook decided to ban any such usage. This is what led to the "Federation" of open source alternatives such as diaspora, Mastodon, etc to form their own social media ecosystem entirely separate from the closed system big boys. I mean, they wanted to give you the interoperability you're hoping for. But the closed garden social media services actively did everything they could to prevent it. Google is no exception in this regard. If you want to never have to go through this again, I'd suggest looking at the various Federa...