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G+ has been a great place to visit for nearly a decade. As we fly apart in all directions, may we find each another again in better times. Goodbyte to all! Final #signalflare (no changes from before). Originally shared by Derek Lichter Other social network presence(s): * Friendica: ozdreaming@social.isurf.ca * Reddit: ozdreaming I will update this as I try other services. My hope is to set up a Hubzilla node at home, but that will take a longer block of time than I have handy now. (I do have a Facebook account -- I never log in, but if you message me I will get the notification.) #signalflare #GooglePlusExodus #Plexodus #GooglePlusMigration #GPlusExodus #GPlusMigration

Plexodus Tools -- data migration Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Screenshots of the work-in-progress console frontend for Plexodus-Tools running in Termux on Android Spent some more time today working on the frontend for the Plexodus-Tools Bash scripts. So far I've tested it on #macOS El Capitan + #iTerm2 + #Homebrew, and #Android + #Termux, and Ubuntu GNU Linux via SSH, all running a recent version of #Bash Screenshots show the main menu, the settings menu, the Setup output, the self-update output, Takeout archive data file extraction, and URL extraction from the Takeout data files. All screenshots were taken from my Android phone. As mentioned in my previous #PlexodusTools update, installation instructions are available at https://github.com/FiXato/Plexodus-Tools/blob/master/README.md#installation-instructions Just a few more days left, before part of these scripts become useless... Still have some more archiving and data analysis to do myself too... #GooglePlus ...

Working with exported data Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Progress on Takeout Google+ Stream Posts Export Tool I've been making some progress with the Google Data Takeout conversion part of my #PlexodusTools project. I can currently let one of the scripts parse all the JSON files in the extracted Takeout/Google+ Stream/Posts directory, and convert the JSON to simplified HTML files in an (imho) logical directory structure, based on what kind of posts it is, and what its privacy setting is: data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/communities/$communityID-$communityName/$userID data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/events/$eventID-$eventName/$userID data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/posts data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/posts/$userID/circles/$circleName data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/posts/$userID/collections/$collectionID-$collectionName data/output/html/exported_activities/limited/posts/$userID/users/$userId-$userN...

WOW Archiving G+ comments of Blogger Via Filip H.F. Slagter Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Big PlexodusTools update for Blogger owners who had GooglePlus Comments widget enabled for their blog: My #PlexodusTools git repository at https://github.com/FiXato/Plexodus-Tools has had some big updates in the past week, specifically the https://github.com/FiXato/Plexodus-Tools/blob/master/README.md#google-comments-on-blogger-blogs-exporter section. The `bin/export_blogger_comments.sh` Bash script can be used to archive all #GPlus Comments for your #Blogger blog. It's basically a wrapper script around all the other scripts, and a way to collect all the retrieved data into a single JSON file. Note, most of these tools can also be used if you use Google+ Comments for Websites. Today's freshly committed code will not only request relevant JSON from the APIs, it will also combine it all into single structured JSON file per domain. Hurry up though, as the Bash scripts rel...

Well worth following Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Google+ Exodus Collection If you want to follow just my posts about the shutdown of Google+, my ongoing development of the Plexodus-Tools set of export / migration utilities, and other news related to the Google+ Exodus, but aren't interested in my other content such as my photography and multimedia interests, you can either follow my account and unfollow individual Collections, or solely follow my Google+ Exodus Collection. :) Since it's at 1936 followers, I'm kinda curious if we can reach 2000 before this place is torched to the ground. ;) #Plexodus #Google #GooglePlus #GPlus #GooglePlusExodus #GooglePlusShutdown #Goofle #2April2019 #FollowFriday #ShamelessPlug #MassMigration #SocialMedia

Blogger added notice regarding Google+ integrations to their admin panel Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Blogger has finally added a notice to its control panel interface The text of the notice reads as follows: Following the announcement of Google+ API deprecation scheduled for March 2019, a number of changes will be made to Blogger’s Google+ integration on 4 February 2019.   Google+ widgets:  Support for the '+1 Button', 'Google+ Followers' and 'Google+ Badge' widgets in Layout will no longer be available. All instances of these widgets will be removed from your blog. +1 buttons:  The +1/G+ buttons and Google+ share links below blog posts and in the navigation bar will be removed. Please note that if you have a custom template that includes Google+ features, you may need to update your template. Please contact your template supplier for advice. Google+ Comments:  Support for Google+ comments will be turned down, and all blogs using Google+ com...

For those of you tearing your hairs out at the "Archive Incomplete" error from Google Data Takeout requests. Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter A brief PSA regarding 'Archive incomplete' errors on Google Data Takeout Since I see many posts about people just trying over and over by requesting a new archive from Google Data Takeout ( https://takeout.google.com ), in the hopes it will get rid of the "Archive Incomplete" error, and getting frustrated when it still shows up, I thought I'd share my advice on it. It's not necessarily as bad as it sounds Just because it says it's incomplete, doesn't mean that it's couldn't find half your content. In my case, it's (consistently the same) two files that couldn't be included, and they are both actually the same video! Inside your archive is a list of files that Google Data Takeout failed to retrieve! While it's mentioned in expanded section of the list of archives on #G...

How the shutdown of Google+ affects Google+ Comments for Blogger While my post here on Google+ is mostly ranting at/about Blogger for not providing a migration path, and being so late with informing its users, the linked article is Blogger's announcement post going into details on how Blogger will be affected by the #GooglePlusShutdown. In short, any comments posted to Blogger blogs using the Google+ Comments system rather than Blogger's original own Comments system, will be lost. +1 and share buttons and related Google+ web integration will also disappear from Blogger. No migration path is provided. Relevant links: Blogger's announcement: https://blogger.googleblog.com/2019/01/an-update-on-google-and-blogger.html Google's announcement: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133 Google's F.A.Q.: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723 Google's F.A.Q. answer regarding Google+ Comments for Blogger: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723#blogger ...

Google Groups no longer a viable alternative for large communities? Note, this is based on the experience and report of a single¹ Google Groups community, so don't take it at face value, but rather use it as a consideration, especially since another Group² reports not experiencing this issue. From the original topic¹ on Google Groups: «After speaking with Google support, it appears that Google has changed the rules on large groups (500-1000 users) to implement a deliberate decision (that has apparently not yet been announced) to not support large groups. The change is to simply block messages based on some unspecified criteria, and the rejection message cites spam but is not actually spam related (and the messages do not appear in a spam folder where we could try to recover them, they are just deleted), and the rejection message suggests making the group moderated (but the group is already moderated). Google support wasn't entirely clear on the details, but said that Google wil...

Not that I am a big fan of Diaspora* so far - it certainly feels like a few steps backwards in terms of user-experience and polish, in particular for photo presentation and convenient photo upload directly from a mobile device. But then I always had a soft spot for the underdog and I am looking forward to moving from the ghost-town to a ghost-village and hopefully some more interesting people will end up moving there too. Originally shared by Bernhard Suter My new primary social-media account is now kugelfish@diasporing.ch https://diasporing.ch/people/f1b0fdf0b1710136466f7a163e59d8f4 BTW, if you ever wanted an off-shore social media account in Switzerland, here is your chance: https://diasporing.ch #signalflare #diaspora #plexodus

Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Feedback provided regarding Google Takeout archive issues: Because I am still running into some issues with cropped filenames, even when exporting to a zip64 archive, I've filed two tickets through Google Feedback ( https://www.google.com/tools/feedback/reports?hl=en or rather the Send Feedback form on takeout.google.com ). I'm sharing them here to make them public record, so others are aware these issues can occur, and perhaps can also provide feedback to Google in case they're also affected. Regarding Contacts with periods in their name: When a Contact's (first?) name contains (ends with?) a period, the exported VCF tends to lack the .vcf file extension. For instance, I had a contact named: First name: 'wolf.' Last name: 'nanaki' The exported vcf however was named: "Takeout/Contacts/Chat4All/wolf.nanaki", no .vcf file extension at all. This makes exporting specific file types only from an arch...

Some notes regarding filenames in Takeout exports Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter Feedback provided regarding Google Takeout archive issues: Because I am still running into some issues with cropped filenames, even when exporting to a zip64 archive, I've filed two tickets through Google Feedback ( https://www.google.com/tools/feedback/reports?hl=en or rather the Send Feedback form on takeout.google.com ). I'm sharing them here to make them public record, so others are aware these issues can occur, and perhaps can also provide feedback to Google in case they're also affected. Regarding Contacts with periods in their name: When a Contact's (first?) name contains (ends with?) a period, the exported VCF tends to lack the .vcf file extension. For instance, I had a contact named: First name: 'wolf.' Last name: 'nanaki' The exported vcf however was named: "Takeout/Contacts/Chat4All/wolf.nanaki", no .vcf file extension at all. This mak...

Announcing G+MM AMA: Cake.co founder Chris MacAskill, Thursday 1 November 2018 at 5 pm US/Eastern Chris MacAskill, has agreed to participate in an AMA on G+MM at 9 PM UCT (5 PM US/Eastern, 2 PM US/Pacific), on Thursday 1 November 2018, in the Google+ Mass Migration community on Google+. Cake.co is a topic-centered microblogging service with excellent image support. For a good overview, see: https://www.cake.co/conversations/CTvLf2K/welcome-to-cake-google-refugees-here-s-how-to-get-started-using-cake/XG5bDgZ This is the third in a series of AMAs, we have other guests invited and candidates and contacts are welcomed! Guidelines, requests, scheduled AMAs, and more: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Ask_Me_Anything (Also in the G+MM sidebar links.) #googleplus #gmmAmas #ama #gplusrefugees #gmm #plexodus #CakeCo https://plus.google.com/communities/112164273001338979772

Announcing G+MM AMA: Socialhome creator Jason "jaywink" Robinson, Tuesday 30 October 3pm US/Eastern Jason Robinson, the creator of the Socialhome federated social networking server , has agreed to participate in an AMA on G+MM at 8pm UCT (3PM US/Eastern, 12 noon US/Pacific), on Tuesday 30 October 2018, in the Google+ Mass Migration community on Google+. Socialhome is similar to a Diaspora or Mastodon server, but with a different UI. Unlike Diaspora or Mastodon it will speak multiple protocols so will simultaneously be able to talk to any other server that talks Diaspora or ActivityPub protocols. It's still in early alpha state. This is the second in a series of AMAs, we have other guests invited and candidates and contacts are welcomed! Guidelines, requests, scheduled AMAs, and more: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Ask_Me_Anything (Also in the G+MM sidebar links.) #googleplus #gmmAmas #ama #mastodon #gplusrefugees #gmm #plexodus https://plus.google.com/commun...

Announcing G+MM AMA: Mastodon creator Eugen "Gargron" Rochko, Monday 22 October 1pm US/Eastern Eugen Rochko , ( https://mastodon.social/@Gargron ), the creator of the Mastodon microblogging platform, has agreed to participate in an AMA on G+MM at 5pm Central European Time (1PM US/Eastern, 10AM US/Pacific), on Monday 22 October 2018, in the Google+ Mass Migration community on Google+. Mastodon is a distributed, federated social network that forms part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers. Mastodon has microblogging features similar to Twitter. Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon server, known as an “instance” of the software, but can connect and communicate with users on other instances as well. Users post short messages called “toots” for others to see, subject to the adjustable privacy settings of the user and their particular instance. The platform includes artists, writers and entrepreneurs such as Chuck ...

Announcing: G+MM AMAs The Google+ Mass Migration forum (at G+) will be running a set of AMAs – ask me anything interviews – focusing on sites and platforms under consideration by present G+ members seeking to move elsewhere. We’re compiling a set of candidates, the first invitations have been sent out and accepted!! Eugen Rochko, ( https://mastodon.social/@Gargron ), the creator of the Mastodon microblogging platform, has agreed to participate in an AMA on G+MM at 5pm Central European Time (1PM US/Eastern, 10AM US/Pacific), on Monday 22 October 2018. Mastodon is a distributed, federated social network that forms part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers. Mastodon has microblogging features similar to Twitter. Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon server, known as an “instance” of the software, but can connect and communicate with users on other instances as well. Users post short messages called “toots” for others to se...