I have been a happy user of Google+ for years, mostly for its Circles feature. Now I need to find something to replace it.
(See post below for more details)
Suggestions very much welcome...
Ask HN: Migrate from Google+ to what exactly?
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#2I have a few hobbies/interests and I like to disseminate information (links to other internet resources, mostly, including stuff I read first through HN). I have currently almost 300 followers, and 28 circles.
Before Google+, whenever I encountered something interesting (say, an article about Japanese language and culture) I had to just send an email to a group of people, while role playing gamers where mostly a distinct group, even if some of these where maybe also in the SW developer group, or interested in Japan too...
I could of course just do the same, mapping all the current circles to mailing lists or aliases, but this would probably be much more cumbersome to manage (i.e. when posting from my iPhone) and of course I would lose the "community" aspect: a lot of my current 300 followers were people I got in touch because we were both following others on Google+.
- I have no Facebook account and I do not want to change this. - I do have Twitter but is basically dormient (I created an account for purely technical reasons but I have tweeted maybe 3 messages on it and do not use it as a reader, either). - Getting people like friends and family to follow me on Google+ was already a bit of a pain when it was alive and kicking (but then it also allowed to make posts "public", which helped a bit) so moving to something maybe even better but obscure (e.g. Diaspora) I am afraid would be very self limiting.
Having said that, what would you suggest? Remember that is mostly to be able to tell people "you can find stuff I am interested in here..." so I am thinking of Tumbler, even if I understand that there is no way to segment the posts by "circles" so people interested in Calligraphy will have to sort through RPG related posts and other stuff they are not really interested in.
(I do have a personal website, but it is not a blog and it is static, backed by an HTML generator, so updating via iPhone is impossible)
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Re: Ask HN: Migrate from Google+ to what exactly?
#4I have a few hobbies/interests and I like to disseminate information (links to other internet resources, mostly, including stuff I read first through HN). I have currently almost 300 followers, and 28 circles. Before Google+, whenever I encountered something interesting (say, an article about Japanese language and culture) I had to just send an email to a group of people, while role playing gamers where mostly a dist…
If you han make a commit to github on your phone you could get the blog to be re-generated via Travis.
Also check out netlify.
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#5WordPress blog
Re: Ask HN: Migrate from Google+ to what exactly?
#6I have a few hobbies/interests and I like to disseminate information (links to other internet resources, mostly, including stuff I read first through HN). I have currently almost 300 followers, and 28 circles. Before Google+, whenever I encountered something interesting (say, an article about Japanese language and culture) I had to just send an email to a group of people, while role playing gamers where mostly a dist…
I think the "HN answer" nowadays is Mastodon, but I don't use it myself and don't know how well that fits your use case.
Falling back to emails doesn't sound like a bad idea to be honest, based on how you describe your usage.
Re: Ask HN: Migrate from Google+ to what exactly?
#7I have a few hobbies/interests and I like to disseminate information (links to other internet resources, mostly, including stuff I read first through HN). I have currently almost 300 followers, and 28 circles. Before Google+, whenever I encountered something interesting (say, an article about Japanese language and culture) I had to just send an email to a group of people, while role playing gamers where mostly a dist…
I am thinking of Tumbler, even if I understand that there is no way to segment the posts by "circles" so people interested in Calligraphy will have to sort through RPG related posts and other stuff they are not really interested in.
You could do a BlogSpot site and use labels to sort things, or make a separate blog for each interest that correlated to a specific circle.
Re: Ask HN: Migrate from Google+ to what exactly?
#8Mastodon!
Re: Ask HN: Migrate from Google+ to what exactly?
#9I have a few hobbies/interests and I like to disseminate information (links to other internet resources, mostly, including stuff I read first through HN). I have currently almost 300 followers, and 28 circles. Before Google+, whenever I encountered something interesting (say, an article about Japanese language and culture) I had to just send an email to a group of people, while role playing gamers where mostly a dist…
I am thinking of Tumbler, even if I understand that there is no way to segment the posts by "circles" so people interested in Calligraphy will have to sort through RPG related posts and other stuff they are not really interested in. You could do a BlogSpot site and use labels to sort things, or make a separate blog for each interest that correlated to a specific circle.
Yes, tagging blog entries is also a possibility - I could probably embed the blog somewhere in my website.
A side effect (which entails both pluses and minuses) is that by using a blog I might curate the links a bit more: with Google plus most of the time I just paste the link and select the appropriate circles.
Re: Ask HN: Migrate from Google+ to what exactly?
#10I have a few hobbies/interests and I like to disseminate information (links to other internet resources, mostly, including stuff I read first through HN). I have currently almost 300 followers, and 28 circles. Before Google+, whenever I encountered something interesting (say, an article about Japanese language and culture) I had to just send an email to a group of people, while role playing gamers where mostly a dist…
I think the "HN answer" nowadays is Mastodon, but I don't use it myself and don't know how well that fits your use case. Falling back to emails doesn't sound like a bad idea to be honest, based on how you describe your usage.
See my other answer about having to curate content more.
Another drawback is that I do not necessarily have emails for all my Google+ contacts, and finding more people sharing interests will be difficult, but I will investigate Mastodon and also some type of mailing list, thanks...