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Back in the early days of social networks I enjoyed trying out new networks. Even since the closure of #GooglePlus (and our collective archiving methods during the #Plexodus beforehand), I haven't really bothered.
I mean, sure, I tried out several alternatives during the #GPlus exodus, such as #Friendica, #Hubzilla, and re-tried #Diaspora* (though the pod I was one also shortly after announced its closure), and of course #Mastodon, just to find a new 'home'.
However, my heart was no longer really in it. For now Mastodon suits my needs (or at least the #GlitchSoc fork; shout out to those wonderful #GlitchSocial folks!) well enough, and I can't be arsed to even look at all the various alternatives that have popped up in my timelines since. (Most of which seem to show up for me, so I'm guessing most of them didn't really pan out anyway.)

Part of me still misses G+ though; especially its early days, and some of the later features such as #Collections and #Groups.

Socialhome.Network as a searchable federation archive

The Socialhome node socialhome.network/ is both widely federated AND searchable by non-members. It displays both posts AND profile pages even to non-members, which is NOT the case for Diaspora* pods.

If you're looking for specific content from a now-defunct pod, Socialhome may be able to turn that up for you.

You can search for a specific profile by the its handle, e.g., [email protected] or [email protected], for my present and now-defunct Joindiaspora profiles, using the site's Search feature.

My (now-offline at origin) Joindiaspora profile appears as:

socialhome.network/p/702b2f0c-…

Note that the profile GUID is NOT the same as it would be for my Joindiaspora profle itself (`d8210c0de509264f``). The Diaspora* GUID can be used to construct a URL visible from the Diaspora* Pod you have an account on and are logged in to, but not as a globally-viewable third-party-accessible URL. Socialhome solves this problem.

That is, if you are on Glasswings, this URL links to my Joindiaspora profile:

diaspora.glasswings.com/people…

But if you're not, it won't. Glasswings users might try a different pod such as Diasp.org:

diasp.org/people/d8210c0de5092…

Instead, third-party visitors are presented with a log-in / registration page. Socialhome solves this problem specifically.

There may be additional features / API apparent at the Socialhome GitLab repo: git.feneas.org/socialhome/soci…

Noting that that is a FENEAS URL, also likely to go offline in the near future, GitHub:

github.com/jaywink/socialhome

Limitations

The downsides to Socialhome seem to be that:

• References to content and profiles does not follow Diaspora*-assigned GUIDs. That is, there's no automated way to refernece a specific post or profile.
• I'm not seeing an obvious way of exposing a JSON abstract of posts or profiles --- the Diaspora* trick of appending .json to the end of a URL does not work, and I'm not seeing a JSON abstract in the raw HTML. There may still be an API.

Photos are displayed but appear to be served from the original host, not separately federated. Once the origin host goes offline, photo links / embeds will be broken.

It's not clear how widely or deeply content is federated, though some should be better than none. This option was brought to my attention by @isaackuo in comments here.

#Diaspora #DataArchival #Federation #SocialHome #Pluspora #Joindiaspora #DataMigration #Archives #Plexodus #GooglePlus #GPlus #FENEAS

Pluspora Pod on the Diaspora* network will be shutting down at the end of March, 2022

Di Cleverly has announced that the Pluspora Pod on the Diaspora* network will be shutting down at the end of March, 2022. This follows the unexpected death of site administrator David Tiery mentioned here earlier. ...

https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/sy7e67/pluspora_pod_on_the_diaspora_network_will_be/

Announcement archive: https://archive.is/Uss0G

#Diaspora #Pluspora #Plexodus #DecentralizedWeb #TransitionPlanning #ContinuityPlanning