#plexodus — Public Fediverse posts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

YCombinator founder Paul Graham has left Twitter:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/paulg/status/1604556563338887168

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041985

He's now at @paulg

(That's [email protected], omitting the leading '@' sign.)

#HackerNews #PaulGraham #Twitter #YCombinator #Twexodus #Plexodus

YCombinator founder Paul Graham has left Twitter:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/paulg/status/1604556563338887168

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041985

He's now at @paulg

(That's [email protected], omitting the leading '@' sign.)

#HackerNews #PaulGraham #Twitter #YCombinator #Twexodus #Plexodus

YCombinator founder Paul Graham has left Twitter:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/paulg/status/1604556563338887168

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041985

He's now at @paulg

(That's [email protected], omitting the leading '@' sign.)

#HackerNews #PaulGraham #Twitter #YCombinator #Twexodus #Plexodus

YCombinator founder Paul Graham has left Twitter:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/paulg/status/1604556563338887168

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041985

He's now at @paulg

(That's [email protected], omitting the leading '@' sign.)

#HackerNews #PaulGraham #Twitter #YCombinator #Twexodus #Plexodus

YCombinator founder Paul Graham has left Twitter:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/paulg/status/1604556563338887168

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041985

He's now at @paulg

(That's [email protected], omitting the leading '@' sign.)

#HackerNews #PaulGraham #Twitter #YCombinator #Twexodus #Plexodus

@gwensnyder FWIW, I put together resources for the Google+ shutdown (April, 2019), a/k/a #plexodus

Wiki
https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page

Subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/

There should be some useful information there in terms of what did / didn't work.

I'm more than happy to make those available to Twitter refugees.

@gwensnyder FWIW, I put together resources for the Google+ shutdown (April, 2019), a/k/a #plexodus

Wiki
https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page

Subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/

There should be some useful information there in terms of what did / didn't work.

I'm more than happy to make those available to Twitter refugees.

@gwensnyder FWIW, I put together resources for the Google+ shutdown (April, 2019), a/k/a #plexodus

Wiki
https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page

Subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/

There should be some useful information there in terms of what did / didn't work.

I'm more than happy to make those available to Twitter refugees.

@gwensnyder FWIW, I put together resources for the Google+ shutdown (April, 2019), a/k/a #plexodus

Wiki
https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page

Subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/

There should be some useful information there in terms of what did / didn't work.

I'm more than happy to make those available to Twitter refugees.

@gwensnyder FWIW, I put together resources for the Google+ shutdown (April, 2019), a/k/a #plexodus

Wiki
https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page

Subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/

There should be some useful information there in terms of what did / didn't work.

I'm more than happy to make those available to Twitter refugees.

How to archive your Tweets with the Wayback Machine

You can request an archive of all your Tweets from Twitter and upload that archive to the Wayback Machine for your Tweets to be archived.

To request an archive of your Tweets from Twitter see these instructions....

https://help.archive.org/help/how-to-archive-your-tweets-with-the-wayback-machine/

IF you want to save your tweets publicly, the Internet Archive makes this possible.

(And if you don't, email the archive at [email protected] with your request, see: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-something-from-archive-org/)

#Twitter #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #Plexodus

How to archive your Tweets with the Wayback Machine

You can request an archive of all your Tweets from Twitter and upload that archive to the Wayback Machine for your Tweets to be archived.

To request an archive of your Tweets from Twitter see these instructions....

https://help.archive.org/help/how-to-archive-your-tweets-with-the-wayback-machine/

IF you want to save your tweets publicly, the Internet Archive makes this possible.

(And if you don't, email the archive at [email protected] with your request, see: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-something-from-archive-org/)

#Twitter #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #Plexodus

How to archive your Tweets with the Wayback Machine

You can request an archive of all your Tweets from Twitter and upload that archive to the Wayback Machine for your Tweets to be archived.

To request an archive of your Tweets from Twitter see these instructions....

https://help.archive.org/help/how-to-archive-your-tweets-with-the-wayback-machine/

IF you want to save your tweets publicly, the Internet Archive makes this possible.

(And if you don't, email the archive at [email protected] with your request, see: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-something-from-archive-org/)

#Twitter #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #Plexodus

How to archive your Tweets with the Wayback Machine

You can request an archive of all your Tweets from Twitter and upload that archive to the Wayback Machine for your Tweets to be archived.

To request an archive of your Tweets from Twitter see these instructions....

https://help.archive.org/help/how-to-archive-your-tweets-with-the-wayback-machine/

IF you want to save your tweets publicly, the Internet Archive makes this possible.

(And if you don't, email the archive at [email protected] with your request, see: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-something-from-archive-org/)

#Twitter #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #Plexodus

How to archive your Tweets with the Wayback Machine

You can request an archive of all your Tweets from Twitter and upload that archive to the Wayback Machine for your Tweets to be archived.

To request an archive of your Tweets from Twitter see these instructions....

https://help.archive.org/help/how-to-archive-your-tweets-with-the-wayback-machine/

IF you want to save your tweets publicly, the Internet Archive makes this possible.

(And if you don't, email the archive at [email protected] with your request, see: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-something-from-archive-org/)

#Twitter #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #Plexodus

Continued Community Migration tips:

• The #InternetArchive, and the independent though closely-working #ArchiveTeam are a blessing if you want your content permanently archived online. (And if you don't, they'll disable public access on request, easily, email [email protected]) This can be self-service or through an Archive Team Project, see: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

• To save any one page at the Wayback Machine, use a URL of the form https://web.archive.org/save/<ORIGINAL_URL>. This can be scripted or automated if you have a list of URLs, say, from a downloaded archive. I've saved many thousands of my own pages across multiple sites this way.

• There's also #ArchiveToday, which is not a charity, is pretty opaque about operations, operators, financing, and goals, but does do a good job of capturing today's Web as it exists (IA can have ... issues with this). There is also no automated bulk-save option. You can streamline the process by generating sets of URLs to save, and clicking through those one-by-one. Depending on what you're trying to save and how motivated you are, this is also an option (and yes, I've also saved a few thousand of my own pages this way).

Keep in mind that archive sites may not be as accessible or functional as the original. For example, Google+ URLs archived at the Internet Archive carry only a subset of comments, and profile pages don't allow the listed posts to be opened.

For example, this G+ post shows only 6 of 82 comments:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190319215226/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hEjRbVQmYSD

And my G+ profile page shows posts but those cannot be opened through the Wayback Machine. Heck, you can't even determine the URLs to request archived copies:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190331094038/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/

What's most useful is if you can indicate on a profile / landing page where you've gone off to and people might be able to, with luck, track you down there. My G+ profile page above does so.

@jerry @evacide @micahflee

#TwitterExodus #Plexodus #CommunityMigration #CommunityContinuity #SwitchingPlatforms #WaybackMachine

Continued Community Migration tips:

• The #InternetArchive, and the independent though closely-working #ArchiveTeam are a blessing if you want your content permanently archived online. (And if you don't, they'll disable public access on request, easily, email [email protected]) This can be self-service or through an Archive Team Project, see: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

• To save any one page at the Wayback Machine, use a URL of the form https://web.archive.org/save/<ORIGINAL_URL>. This can be scripted or automated if you have a list of URLs, say, from a downloaded archive. I've saved many thousands of my own pages across multiple sites this way.

• There's also #ArchiveToday, which is not a charity, is pretty opaque about operations, operators, financing, and goals, but does do a good job of capturing today's Web as it exists (IA can have ... issues with this). There is also no automated bulk-save option. You can streamline the process by generating sets of URLs to save, and clicking through those one-by-one. Depending on what you're trying to save and how motivated you are, this is also an option (and yes, I've also saved a few thousand of my own pages this way).

Keep in mind that archive sites may not be as accessible or functional as the original. For example, Google+ URLs archived at the Internet Archive carry only a subset of comments, and profile pages don't allow the listed posts to be opened.

For example, this G+ post shows only 6 of 82 comments:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190319215226/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hEjRbVQmYSD

And my G+ profile page shows posts but those cannot be opened through the Wayback Machine. Heck, you can't even determine the URLs to request archived copies:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190331094038/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/

What's most useful is if you can indicate on a profile / landing page where you've gone off to and people might be able to, with luck, track you down there. My G+ profile page above does so.

@jerry @evacide @micahflee

#TwitterExodus #Plexodus #CommunityMigration #CommunityContinuity #SwitchingPlatforms #WaybackMachine

Continued Community Migration tips:

• The #InternetArchive, and the independent though closely-working #ArchiveTeam are a blessing if you want your content permanently archived online. (And if you don't, they'll disable public access on request, easily, email [email protected]) This can be self-service or through an Archive Team Project, see: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

• To save any one page at the Wayback Machine, use a URL of the form https://web.archive.org/save/<ORIGINAL_URL>. This can be scripted or automated if you have a list of URLs, say, from a downloaded archive. I've saved many thousands of my own pages across multiple sites this way.

• There's also #ArchiveToday, which is not a charity, is pretty opaque about operations, operators, financing, and goals, but does do a good job of capturing today's Web as it exists (IA can have ... issues with this). There is also no automated bulk-save option. You can streamline the process by generating sets of URLs to save, and clicking through those one-by-one. Depending on what you're trying to save and how motivated you are, this is also an option (and yes, I've also saved a few thousand of my own pages this way).

Keep in mind that archive sites may not be as accessible or functional as the original. For example, Google+ URLs archived at the Internet Archive carry only a subset of comments, and profile pages don't allow the listed posts to be opened.

For example, this G+ post shows only 6 of 82 comments:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190319215226/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hEjRbVQmYSD

And my G+ profile page shows posts but those cannot be opened through the Wayback Machine. Heck, you can't even determine the URLs to request archived copies:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190331094038/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/

What's most useful is if you can indicate on a profile / landing page where you've gone off to and people might be able to, with luck, track you down there. My G+ profile page above does so.

@jerry @evacide @micahflee

#TwitterExodus #Plexodus #CommunityMigration #CommunityContinuity #SwitchingPlatforms #WaybackMachine

Continued Community Migration tips:

• The #InternetArchive, and the independent though closely-working #ArchiveTeam are a blessing if you want your content permanently archived online. (And if you don't, they'll disable public access on request, easily, email [email protected]) This can be self-service or through an Archive Team Project, see: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

• To save any one page at the Wayback Machine, use a URL of the form https://web.archive.org/save/<ORIGINAL_URL>. This can be scripted or automated if you have a list of URLs, say, from a downloaded archive. I've saved many thousands of my own pages across multiple sites this way.

• There's also #ArchiveToday, which is not a charity, is pretty opaque about operations, operators, financing, and goals, but does do a good job of capturing today's Web as it exists (IA can have ... issues with this). There is also no automated bulk-save option. You can streamline the process by generating sets of URLs to save, and clicking through those one-by-one. Depending on what you're trying to save and how motivated you are, this is also an option (and yes, I've also saved a few thousand of my own pages this way).

Keep in mind that archive sites may not be as accessible or functional as the original. For example, Google+ URLs archived at the Internet Archive carry only a subset of comments, and profile pages don't allow the listed posts to be opened.

For example, this G+ post shows only 6 of 82 comments:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190319215226/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hEjRbVQmYSD

And my G+ profile page shows posts but those cannot be opened through the Wayback Machine. Heck, you can't even determine the URLs to request archived copies:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190331094038/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/

What's most useful is if you can indicate on a profile / landing page where you've gone off to and people might be able to, with luck, track you down there. My G+ profile page above does so.

@jerry @evacide @micahflee

#TwitterExodus #Plexodus #CommunityMigration #CommunityContinuity #SwitchingPlatforms #WaybackMachine

Continued Community Migration tips:

• The #InternetArchive, and the independent though closely-working #ArchiveTeam are a blessing if you want your content permanently archived online. (And if you don't, they'll disable public access on request, easily, email [email protected]) This can be self-service or through an Archive Team Project, see: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

• To save any one page at the Wayback Machine, use a URL of the form https://web.archive.org/save/<ORIGINAL_URL>. This can be scripted or automated if you have a list of URLs, say, from a downloaded archive. I've saved many thousands of my own pages across multiple sites this way.

• There's also #ArchiveToday, which is not a charity, is pretty opaque about operations, operators, financing, and goals, but does do a good job of capturing today's Web as it exists (IA can have ... issues with this). There is also no automated bulk-save option. You can streamline the process by generating sets of URLs to save, and clicking through those one-by-one. Depending on what you're trying to save and how motivated you are, this is also an option (and yes, I've also saved a few thousand of my own pages this way).

Keep in mind that archive sites may not be as accessible or functional as the original. For example, Google+ URLs archived at the Internet Archive carry only a subset of comments, and profile pages don't allow the listed posts to be opened.

For example, this G+ post shows only 6 of 82 comments:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190319215226/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hEjRbVQmYSD

And my G+ profile page shows posts but those cannot be opened through the Wayback Machine. Heck, you can't even determine the URLs to request archived copies:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190331094038/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/

What's most useful is if you can indicate on a profile / landing page where you've gone off to and people might be able to, with luck, track you down there. My G+ profile page above does so.

@jerry @evacide @micahflee

#TwitterExodus #Plexodus #CommunityMigration #CommunityContinuity #SwitchingPlatforms #WaybackMachine

@jerry I'd tried setting up a resource for Google+ refugees, which ... turned out to be hard.

Lessons learned, however, at https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page.

Related subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/

I've been meaning to compile a set of lessons learned, of possible interest to you and perhaps @evacide (I'd initiated contacts w/ EFF a ways back but dropped that ball).

• Community is a lot harder to preserve than content. Existing social media platforms aren't just the publisher but the directory.

• Move to an established platform. Even if it's not ideal, something that's up right now beats the heck out of still-in-development (or not even that) options.

• Mailing lists are highly underappreciated. They offer an out-of-band universal contact mechanism: email addresses.

• Though managed migration of community is hard ... informal migration can still be surprisingly effective if people know where to find you. Post VERY PROMINENT NOTICES of where you'll be moving to.

• #SIGNALFLARE was a mechanism created and employed heavily at G+. The hashtag, plus a set of contacts and alternate platforms at which you could be found was encouraged. I'd compiled many of those in a Notable Names Database: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/G%2B_Notable_Names_Database

• Once a platform has either announced it will be shutting down, or appears quite likely to do so for other reasons, the best thing to do is to establish alternative presences sooner rather than later.

• In fact, better than that is to have a multi-platform strategy from the start. Do NOT put all your eggs in one basket. (Jerry with mailing list, blog, podcast, Twitter, and Mastodon presences is an exemplar here.)

• There's a notion of three types of people in an emergency: 1) deer in the headlights, 2) show us what to do, and 3) this ship's unsinkable. Numbers 1 & 3 can't be helped, group 2 are your squad. (There are also a few other categories, including griefers and profiteers/opportunists.) For a platform migration, the good news is that few people are likely to die, so groups 1 & 3 will eventually rediscover the main body, but during the transition they're of less than no use.

• People do in fact die. The refugee Diaspora* instance for G+ refugees, Pluspora.com, failed after its admin died, without any continuity / transfer-of-leadership plan. Joindiaspora, the original Diaspora* instance, after both technical debt and an AWOL admin meant that it was no longer viable. #BusFactor is a real problem, continuity needs addressing.

There's more I could write, this is probably a good start.

#TwitterExodus #Plexodus #CommunityMigration #CommunityContinuity #SwitchingPlatforms

@jerry I'd tried setting up a resource for Google+ refugees, which ... turned out to be hard.

Lessons learned, however, at https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page.

Related subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/

I've been meaning to compile a set of lessons learned, of possible interest to you and perhaps @evacide (I'd initiated contacts w/ EFF a ways back but dropped that ball).

• Community is a lot harder to preserve than content. Existing social media platforms aren't just the publisher but the directory.

• Move to an established platform. Even if it's not ideal, something that's up right now beats the heck out of still-in-development (or not even that) options.

• Mailing lists are highly underappreciated. They offer an out-of-band universal contact mechanism: email addresses.

• Though managed migration of community is hard ... informal migration can still be surprisingly effective if people know where to find you. Post VERY PROMINENT NOTICES of where you'll be moving to.

• #SIGNALFLARE was a mechanism created and employed heavily at G+. The hashtag, plus a set of contacts and alternate platforms at which you could be found was encouraged. I'd compiled many of those in a Notable Names Database: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/G%2B_Notable_Names_Database

• Once a platform has either announced it will be shutting down, or appears quite likely to do so for other reasons, the best thing to do is to establish alternative presences sooner rather than later.

• In fact, better than that is to have a multi-platform strategy from the start. Do NOT put all your eggs in one basket. (Jerry with mailing list, blog, podcast, Twitter, and Mastodon presences is an exemplar here.)

• There's a notion of three types of people in an emergency: 1) deer in the headlights, 2) show us what to do, and 3) this ship's unsinkable. Numbers 1 & 3 can't be helped, group 2 are your squad. (There are also a few other categories, including griefers and profiteers/opportunists.) For a platform migration, the good news is that few people are likely to die, so groups 1 & 3 will eventually rediscover the main body, but during the transition they're of less than no use.

• People do in fact die. The refugee Diaspora* instance for G+ refugees, Pluspora.com, failed after its admin died, without any continuity / transfer-of-leadership plan. Joindiaspora, the original Diaspora* instance, after both technical debt and an AWOL admin meant that it was no longer viable. #BusFactor is a real problem, continuity needs addressing.

There's more I could write, this is probably a good start.

#TwitterExodus #Plexodus #CommunityMigration #CommunityContinuity #SwitchingPlatforms

@jerry I'd tried setting up a resource for Google+ refugees, which ... turned out to be hard.

Lessons learned, however, at https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page.

Related subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/

I've been meaning to compile a set of lessons learned, of possible interest to you and perhaps @evacide (I'd initiated contacts w/ EFF a ways back but dropped that ball).

• Community is a lot harder to preserve than content. Existing social media platforms aren't just the publisher but the directory.

• Move to an established platform. Even if it's not ideal, something that's up right now beats the heck out of still-in-development (or not even that) options.

• Mailing lists are highly underappreciated. They offer an out-of-band universal contact mechanism: email addresses.

• Though managed migration of community is hard ... informal migration can still be surprisingly effective if people know where to find you. Post VERY PROMINENT NOTICES of where you'll be moving to.

• #SIGNALFLARE was a mechanism created and employed heavily at G+. The hashtag, plus a set of contacts and alternate platforms at which you could be found was encouraged. I'd compiled many of those in a Notable Names Database: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/G%2B_Notable_Names_Database

• Once a platform has either announced it will be shutting down, or appears quite likely to do so for other reasons, the best thing to do is to establish alternative presences sooner rather than later.

• In fact, better than that is to have a multi-platform strategy from the start. Do NOT put all your eggs in one basket. (Jerry with mailing list, blog, podcast, Twitter, and Mastodon presences is an exemplar here.)

• There's a notion of three types of people in an emergency: 1) deer in the headlights, 2) show us what to do, and 3) this ship's unsinkable. Numbers 1 & 3 can't be helped, group 2 are your squad. (There are also a few other categories, including griefers and profiteers/opportunists.) For a platform migration, the good news is that few people are likely to die, so groups 1 & 3 will eventually rediscover the main body, but during the transition they're of less than no use.

• People do in fact die. The refugee Diaspora* instance for G+ refugees, Pluspora.com, failed after its admin died, without any continuity / transfer-of-leadership plan. Joindiaspora, the original Diaspora* instance, after both technical debt and an AWOL admin meant that it was no longer viable. #BusFactor is a real problem, continuity needs addressing.

There's more I could write, this is probably a good start.

#TwitterExodus #Plexodus #CommunityMigration #CommunityContinuity #SwitchingPlatforms

@jerry I'd tried setting up a resource for Google+ refugees, which ... turned out to be hard.

Lessons learned, however, at https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page.

Related subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/

I've been meaning to compile a set of lessons learned, of possible interest to you and perhaps @evacide (I'd initiated contacts w/ EFF a ways back but dropped that ball).

• Community is a lot harder to preserve than content. Existing social media platforms aren't just the publisher but the directory.

• Move to an established platform. Even if it's not ideal, something that's up right now beats the heck out of still-in-development (or not even that) options.

• Mailing lists are highly underappreciated. They offer an out-of-band universal contact mechanism: email addresses.

• Though managed migration of community is hard ... informal migration can still be surprisingly effective if people know where to find you. Post VERY PROMINENT NOTICES of where you'll be moving to.

• #SIGNALFLARE was a mechanism created and employed heavily at G+. The hashtag, plus a set of contacts and alternate platforms at which you could be found was encouraged. I'd compiled many of those in a Notable Names Database: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/G%2B_Notable_Names_Database

• Once a platform has either announced it will be shutting down, or appears quite likely to do so for other reasons, the best thing to do is to establish alternative presences sooner rather than later.

• In fact, better than that is to have a multi-platform strategy from the start. Do NOT put all your eggs in one basket. (Jerry with mailing list, blog, podcast, Twitter, and Mastodon presences is an exemplar here.)

• There's a notion of three types of people in an emergency: 1) deer in the headlights, 2) show us what to do, and 3) this ship's unsinkable. Numbers 1 & 3 can't be helped, group 2 are your squad. (There are also a few other categories, including griefers and profiteers/opportunists.) For a platform migration, the good news is that few people are likely to die, so groups 1 & 3 will eventually rediscover the main body, but during the transition they're of less than no use.

• People do in fact die. The refugee Diaspora* instance for G+ refugees, Pluspora.com, failed after its admin died, without any continuity / transfer-of-leadership plan. Joindiaspora, the original Diaspora* instance, after both technical debt and an AWOL admin meant that it was no longer viable. #BusFactor is a real problem, continuity needs addressing.

There's more I could write, this is probably a good start.

#TwitterExodus #Plexodus #CommunityMigration #CommunityContinuity #SwitchingPlatforms

@jerry I'd tried setting up a resource for Google+ refugees, which ... turned out to be hard.

Lessons learned, however, at https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page.

Related subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/

I've been meaning to compile a set of lessons learned, of possible interest to you and perhaps @evacide (I'd initiated contacts w/ EFF a ways back but dropped that ball).

• Community is a lot harder to preserve than content. Existing social media platforms aren't just the publisher but the directory.

• Move to an established platform. Even if it's not ideal, something that's up right now beats the heck out of still-in-development (or not even that) options.

• Mailing lists are highly underappreciated. They offer an out-of-band universal contact mechanism: email addresses.

• Though managed migration of community is hard ... informal migration can still be surprisingly effective if people know where to find you. Post VERY PROMINENT NOTICES of where you'll be moving to.

• #SIGNALFLARE was a mechanism created and employed heavily at G+. The hashtag, plus a set of contacts and alternate platforms at which you could be found was encouraged. I'd compiled many of those in a Notable Names Database: https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/G%2B_Notable_Names_Database

• Once a platform has either announced it will be shutting down, or appears quite likely to do so for other reasons, the best thing to do is to establish alternative presences sooner rather than later.

• In fact, better than that is to have a multi-platform strategy from the start. Do NOT put all your eggs in one basket. (Jerry with mailing list, blog, podcast, Twitter, and Mastodon presences is an exemplar here.)

• There's a notion of three types of people in an emergency: 1) deer in the headlights, 2) show us what to do, and 3) this ship's unsinkable. Numbers 1 & 3 can't be helped, group 2 are your squad. (There are also a few other categories, including griefers and profiteers/opportunists.) For a platform migration, the good news is that few people are likely to die, so groups 1 & 3 will eventually rediscover the main body, but during the transition they're of less than no use.

• People do in fact die. The refugee Diaspora* instance for G+ refugees, Pluspora.com, failed after its admin died, without any continuity / transfer-of-leadership plan. Joindiaspora, the original Diaspora* instance, after both technical debt and an AWOL admin meant that it was no longer viable. #BusFactor is a real problem, continuity needs addressing.

There's more I could write, this is probably a good start.

#TwitterExodus #Plexodus #CommunityMigration #CommunityContinuity #SwitchingPlatforms

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

Godspeed Joindiaspora

... At 20:01 UTC the site started throwing 502 Bad Gateway errors. This means that the planned maintenance has begun. According to previous announcements (see below), the site will return in a “limited-service mode” at some future point, precise time not known. How long the site will remain available in this mode has also not been clear, though suggestions are that it will be at least a month. I would hope longer. ...

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/6fcf5c107e30013a5b3a448a5b29e257

#Joindiaspora #JoindiasporaCom #Diaspora #DiasporaMigration #Migration #Diaspora #Help #Tips #DataArchves #Archives #Plexodus

Godspeed Joindiaspora

... At 20:01 UTC the site started throwing 502 Bad Gateway errors. This means that the planned maintenance has begun. According to previous announcements (see below), the site will return in a “limited-service mode” at some future point, precise time not known. How long the site will remain available in this mode has also not been clear, though suggestions are that it will be at least a month. I would hope longer. ...

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/6fcf5c107e30013a5b3a448a5b29e257

#Joindiaspora #JoindiasporaCom #Diaspora #DiasporaMigration #Migration #Diaspora #Help #Tips #DataArchves #Archives #Plexodus

Joindiaspora Shutdown is in ONE (1) Days

Joindiaspora will cease to be a active Diaspora pod on March 4, 2022.

If you’re waiting for a rescue or sitting on the fence, DO NOT WAIT.

Your options are reduced with any further delay.

What you should do NOW:

• Create an archive of any data you wish to preserve from your Profile Settings page.
• Find a new home on another Diaspora* or Fediverse instance NOW
• Share your new location with your followers.

Do not expect miracles or a continuation, the Joindiaspora pod will be shut down SOON.

See also:

• Joindiaspora Shutdown Announcement
• Data Migration Tips & Questions thread

#SIGNALFLARE

I have moved from @dredmorbius ([email protected]) to @dredmorbius ([email protected]). #Joindiaspora #JoindiasporaCom #Diaspora #DiasporaMigration #Migration #Diaspora #Help #Tips #DataArchves #Archives #Plexodus

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

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

Personal Media Strategies and Protocols (2018)

John Wehrle suggests at The Beginning is Near that it might be possible to split Google+ activity into separate activities using multiple tools. This is very much what I've been thinking, with the key requirement that the tools interoperate, and if possible interact....

https://diasp.org/posts/ee4f3790b249013613500218b786018b

How might a decentralised and distributed social / personal media ecosystem function?

#PersonalMedia #SocialMedia #Media #Plexodus

Personal Media Strategies and Protocols (2018)

John Wehrle suggests at The Beginning is Near that it might be possible to split Google+ activity into separate activities using multiple tools. This is very much what I've been thinking, with the key requirement that the tools interoperate, and if possible interact....

https://diasp.org/posts/ee4f3790b249013613500218b786018b

How might a decentralised and distributed social / personal media ecosystem function?

#PersonalMedia #SocialMedia #Media #Plexodus

What I'm looking for right now is:

• A good overview of the sitution and what's happened. I'd like the best arguments from each side, though presumably Freenode's recent status should be suitable for theirs.
• A list of affected / migrated channels.
• If possible, a good backgrounder on what IRC is and why it matters / what its past role has been.
• The Freenode history. (I'm aware of a fair bit of it going back to lilo, though I've not been active on the network for about 15 years. I do stop by from time to time, or at least did until the past few weeks --- so yes, I've got a dog in this hunt).

A summary of status reports / developments / news coverage if possible.

(I'm doing most of my initial mining from Hacker News submissions.)

Thanks.

#Freenode #Liberanet #Plexodus

What I'm looking for right now is:

• A good overview of the sitution and what's happened. I'd like the best arguments from each side, though presumably Freenode's recent status should be suitable for theirs.
• A list of affected / migrated channels.
• If possible, a good backgrounder on what IRC is and why it matters / what its past role has been.
• The Freenode history. (I'm aware of a fair bit of it going back to lilo, though I've not been active on the network for about 15 years. I do stop by from time to time, or at least did until the past few weeks --- so yes, I've got a dog in this hunt).

A summary of status reports / developments / news coverage if possible.

(I'm doing most of my initial mining from Hacker News submissions.)

Thanks.

#Freenode #Liberanet #Plexodus

Plexodus is covering the Freenode / Liberanet Situation

Plexodus is a ... concept ... with a number of online presences (including a Reddit channel and Wiki) dedicated to the challenge of community migration from dead, or in this case, openly hostile, platforms.

We're now looking at the Freenode hijacking and Liberanet.chat situation.

https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/nlquhk/freenode_liberanet_situation/

#Freenode #LiberanetChat #Plexodus

Plexodus is covering the Freenode / Liberanet Situation

Plexodus is a ... concept ... with a number of online presences (including a Reddit channel and Wiki) dedicated to the challenge of community migration from dead, or in this case, openly hostile, platforms.

We're now looking at the Freenode hijacking and Liberanet.chat situation.

https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/nlquhk/freenode_liberanet_situation/

#Freenode #LiberanetChat #Plexodus

Time for a bit more coding on #PlexodusTools, and archiving of personal content from the GoogleUserContent servers before it's inevitably deleted too.

#GooglePlus #PLEXodus #GooglePlusShutdown #Development

Is it just me, or has #Google already closed off the #GooglePlus APIs?
I'm getting 204 No Content results for all Activity#get and Comment#get requests, and empty "items: []" list results for Activity#list and Comment#list queries.

Or is it just me, and have I been shadowbanned?

You can try via the API Explorer: https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/activities/list?authuser=2&apix_params=%7B"userId"%3A"me"%2C"collection"%3A"public"%7D

#Plexodus #GooglePlusShutdown

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, the scripts rely on the #GPlus #APIs which will go away on March 7th, so in a few days.

The most important will be to retrieve all the data; once the data is cached locally, future updates to improve structure and parsing of the JSON archive can work based on the cached results.

#PlexodusTools #Plexodus #GooglePlusShutdown