On Social Media

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 ...

I've been enjoying Mastodon for a few days, starting by joining an instance targeted to a community that I already associate with, and then poaching people from the federated timeline. After a couple of days, the feed seems ... useful and busy enough. It isn't a G+ though, it's a Twitter. There are some thoughtful conversations, but there are lots of throw-away tiny posts that don't necessarily add to your life, just like Twitter :-) There may be some use of #tags, but I don't see much like Communities. Pleroma and GNU Social seem to be in the same format, with small UI differences (yes there are probably significant structural diffs, but ...). I'm looking for the form of G+, not necessarily the number of users. Does anyone here have more suggestions for me? :-)