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Federation: The Inmates are Running the Asylum!
Social network slowdown will change lives
I think everyone is pulling back a little. The sobering and repeated Facebook “scandals” and the bitterness over the Google+ closure has awakened a lot of people. They now realize they were wasting more time online than is reasonable when they have lives, families and the potential to do other things. Google+ was obviously a poor investment of time spent, other than temporary gratification. That network is continuing for GSuite users and some believe this will attempt to compete with Slack. What could possibly go wrong?
I believe the world of social networks is especially great for shut-ins. Prisoners, people who have reduced mobility for health reasons, introverts, agoraphobics, very old folks and such. I think the majority of us who are not in one of those categories will be better off spending less time online in vapid social network conversations and more in real life, doing facetime in the non-patented meat space version.
Pluspora was a great initiative. It brought me back after 8 years of inactivity on two original Diaspora pods. Those of us who joined diaspora in the first year didn’t know what to do with it. Pluspora and other similar efforts introduced Diaspora to others at a critical moment. MeWe, another Google+ refugee destination…
