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 paulg@mas.to, 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.

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 info@archive.org 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 info@archive.org) 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

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

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

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

“Mueller announces that he will release his entire report exclusively on Google+, on April 3, 2019.”

Ha. :"))

#PloosRefugee #plexodus #ThisIsAJokeLaugh

Recently discovered through Ello, might make for some interesting investigation for #plexodus etc., etc.:

📑 https://www.openbook.social/en/manifesto

#SocialMedia #Solid #SocMedMigration

so, I've decided to join #Mozfest this year, hopefully I'll find some folks there to talk about the #Plexodus, Federation and Social Networks.

https://mozillafestival.org/