For me, the critical (and in many ways, only) feature of a social media platform is the people I know who are on it and posting/responding regularly. I have FB, LJ, DW, G+, and Diaspora accounts, and I check all of them daily, but the primary place where there are interactions to be had is still FB.
I may be an outlier in that I'm not interested in using social media to expand my circle, only to keep in touch with the circle I already have. I mean, really, I'm terrible enough at maintaining my existing relationships, I should take on even more people to neglect and disappoint? :/
Ditto this: "For me, the critical (and in many ways, only) feature of a social media platform is the people I know who are on it and posting/responding regularly."
I "only" have LJ, FB, G+ and Twitter accounts. I check LJ and G+ daily, and try to hold myself down to once/week with FB and Twitter. (I was great at doing this in the summer but have slipped and am reading both more often than I wish I were.)
I was a late adopter on all of the above social medias; if I gather that all my friends are migrating to Diaspora or Ello or whatever, then I will eventually move over there.
adding to my twitter comments: the federation never seemed to actually work usefully. I could never find/follow/etc the few other people I knew using Diaspora on other servers.
Huh. I remember that being a problem early on. It seems to work now. I have not tested it exhaustively, but I have friends on other servers, and we seem to do just fine.
Several years ago, I considered it. I was curious about what features it offered, so I wrote to the mailing list to ask about what seemed to me like some simple cases (I can't remember what now). Nobody seemed to have any answers. So I decided not to join.
I was talking with a friend the other day about how we would go about creating a federated social network. I thought there were three really big problems: UX, scaling, and spam. And I wasn't really clear on how to handle any of them in a decentralized way.
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I may be an outlier in that I'm not interested in using social media to expand my circle, only to keep in touch with the circle I already have. I mean, really, I'm terrible enough at maintaining my existing relationships, I should take on even more people to neglect and disappoint? :/
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I "only" have LJ, FB, G+ and Twitter accounts. I check LJ and G+ daily, and try to hold myself down to once/week with FB and Twitter. (I was great at doing this in the summer but have slipped and am reading both more often than I wish I were.)
I was a late adopter on all of the above social medias; if I gather that all my friends are migrating to Diaspora or Ello or whatever, then I will eventually move over there.
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I was talking with a friend the other day about how we would go about creating a federated social network. I thought there were three really big problems: UX, scaling, and spam. And I wasn't really clear on how to handle any of them in a decentralized way.
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