I made an account when it first came out, but you were the only other person I knew there and it seemed a facebook replacement, not a livejournal replacement, so I quickly forgot it existed.
I'm thinking of upping my activity there... but I'm also wondering if getting involved in the visibility / UX side of the project would be more to the point.
And then I think - UX? me?! the is the set up for a bad joke, right?
*ding* Yes, it's a FB replacement, which I don't want. Also, "pods," what on earth is that, it's part of my "this is weird and hard" reaction we talked about on Twitter. (edit: I just went and looked it up. "Step 1: Choose a pod that suits you." Nice, except I don't know what will suit me until I've played with the service a little. Can I change pods? I don't know! This is weird and hard!)
Basically Diaspora's PR is either nonexistent or not aimed at me, I dunno. What you told me about it was absolutely counter to my vague impressions. (edit: No, I think I had the right impression; you and diasporafoundation.org aren't saying the same things, to my mind. You want everybody; they want everybody who is already a techie.)
I'm pretty sure they think they want everybody, and just kind of suck at talking to people who aren't already up to their eyeballs in this all.
Reading all these responses, I'm more and more wondering if I have time to take on some kind of Diaspora* introductory tour thing. Because yeah, the current situation seems to be dire, and that's a major barrier to adoption.
OTOH, time. Urgh.
(And then a beautiful golden bellied raptor of some kind perched on a branch right in front of my window.)
I was (am?) a featured account on my pod, so I have a bazillion Diaspora friends whom I don't know in any other setting. Which has made it kind of hard to care, especially since there's so much resharing of random graphic stuff.
I used it quite a bit. Then I had a weird, awkward interaction with someone who got kind of really stalkery, and haven't been back. Maybe I'll fire up a new account.
But some of the discussions on FB and Twitter have me really thinking that there are some pretty major barriers to getting people on the platform, and those perhaps need to be addressed before popularization campaigns of other kinds of likely to work well.
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And then I think - UX? me?! the is the set up for a bad joke, right?
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Basically Diaspora's PR is either nonexistent or not aimed at me, I dunno. What you told me about it was absolutely counter to my vague impressions. (edit: No, I think I had the right impression; you and diasporafoundation.org aren't saying the same things, to my mind. You want everybody; they want everybody who is already a techie.)
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Reading all these responses, I'm more and more wondering if I have time to take on some kind of Diaspora* introductory tour thing. Because yeah, the current situation seems to be dire, and that's a major barrier to adoption.
OTOH, time. Urgh.
(And then a beautiful golden bellied raptor of some kind perched on a branch right in front of my window.)
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Then I had a weird, awkward interaction with someone who got kind of really stalkery, and haven't been back.
Maybe I'll fire up a new account.
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But some of the discussions on FB and Twitter have me really thinking that there are some pretty major barriers to getting people on the platform, and those perhaps need to be addressed before popularization campaigns of other kinds of likely to work well.
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In fact, I don't think I'd ever heard of it until now.
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