Yeah, I'm getting tired of it, too.
So I've done some work on both WeMe and Diaspora/Pluspora, to try and feel a bit more comfortable.
WeMe just feels more constricting. I've created some specialty Groups to mirror my G+ Collections — whether that gains any traction will be a question of time. I'm less concerned than some by the extent to which WeMe has been one of the sites that Alt-Right folk have taken shelter after being booted from FB and Twitter.
Diaspora/Pluspora feels like a more vibrant community to me. The interface is gamma as hell, but I'm working through it. I've mirrored Collections here through special, personal hashtags. I've felt like I've had much more engagement there than in WeMe.
That said, both remain problematic to me. WeMe has that feel to it, as described. I'm yet to be convinced that Diaspora can make the open source and distributed ownership/admin models work.
Maybe I'll just end up using a combo of WordPress and Twitter, and go from there.
Diaspora: three_star_dave@pluspora.com
MeWe: https://mewe.com/i/three_star_dave
I'm here until the lights go out and then I will miss you all terribly and get on with my life…
I'm hoping Pluspora succeeds, because that's where I am.
I was thinking about personal hashtags for collections. I’m interested in how that works for you.
Right now the photo sharing limitations are killing me. I don’t need a Diaspora app, but I need a share extension, and one that can scale photos. I may look into writing one.
+Kee Hinckley I'm not sure I'd use Diaspora as my primary photo repository — link over to it from some other, more flexible/reliable locale like Flickr or Smugmug or even Google Photos. That much should be possible.
The problem I'm going to have, and it might wane over time, but, I'm going to have to be in both places post-g+.
I don't know any way around it yet, but, I want to keep up with all of you so, it'll be where I be.
+Simon Vince I suspect I will eventually have to choose one or the other. I'm testing doing both Diaspora and MeWe, so I'm essentially triple-posting everything. That's not a sustainable route for me, unless cross-posting tools get much easier.
On the other hand, it's still 10 months away …
+Dave Hill – I'm seriously looking at using something like hootsuite or something similar so I can write once, post multiple times.
The other option I have is change the way I do online social. I don't know what that will be or look like but, I do want to keep following the brilliance that I've found on here. That may mean multiple accounts on multiple platforms.
I'm not a prolific poster or commenter and the way the algorithm works here, many people won't even know I'm around most days. But, there's a reason I followed every single one of you and I know I'd miss that.
+Simon Vince Yeah, it may be that the dream of focus (or primary focus) on just one platform isn't reasonable.
Part of me's just thinking I might go back to using my old WordPress blog, use some of the tools there to cross-post more or less automagically to some other platforms, and see what happens. The problem is, I've tried that, and engagement goes waaaaaaay down.
I have reservations on all the alternatives right at the moment.
+Mike Elgan had a good article about social being dead. A bit hyperbolic, but, social has changed. +Leo Laporte has moved off social and if you want to see what he's up to, it's gone form push notifications and posts to pull. (He did post on here during his last cruise even though he's dropped Facebook and Twitter).
https://plus.google.com/+MikeElgan/posts/gNz2B2Rw7uV
Mike talks about making your own blog and having people subscribe that way. Or use email as a social network. It's another possibility and worth exploring as well. The problem of course is how do we get everyone to subscribe if it's not in one place. Which is the topic du jour.
Well, I started with my own blog, so it's something I can always fall back to. When I've experimented with that a few times, engagement has dropped to a trickle — how to get people to (a) notice / find, (b) follow , and ideally (c) interact is non-trivial.
I wrote a “Shortcuts” app for my phone that works as a share extension for text and photos. It prompts me to edit my comment, then asks which of FB, G+, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram i want to share on. It then loops through each of the shares and shares the link/image I was sharing, and I paste in the text. It’s not ideal, but it’s faster than doing it by hand.