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Sep. 22nd, 2011 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikThis isn't really why my posting is so sporadic - that's all about being really busy.*
But. My Diaspora pod, diasp.org, recently did this featured user thing so we could all see who else was on the pod and friend folks and stuff. And I'm a featured user (because I said I thought it would be fun) and all the sudden I have a bunch of Diaspora contacts - if mostly on my pod - and gosh, what an interesting group of people. (For the last bit before, it had been mostly![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
randomdreams and I chatting. Because damn it, in order for it to become a successful platform, people have to use it!)
By the way, I'm tylik@diasp.org, just as you'd expect ;-)
Most of my Diaspora stuff is still public, and a lot of it forwards to Twitter (and hence Facebook). And Diaspora isn't all the way grown up yet - it still lacks a community feature, for instance, though one is in the works. But it's becoming a more and more interesting platform.
....and also, not Facebook. (Or more to the point, not any particular company, but a network of distributed pods, and respect for user information. I mean, I'm just saying.)
* Like so busy my lab meeting presentation became "This is what I'm doing TA'ing neurobio lab". Admittedly, Dr. C used to be one of the professors that co-taught the class (now it's just Dr. W and I) so he gets it. Actually, all I had to say was "Imagine trying to get a class to set up a different neurobio preparation and get data every week" and everyone else got it.
But. My Diaspora pod, diasp.org, recently did this featured user thing so we could all see who else was on the pod and friend folks and stuff. And I'm a featured user (because I said I thought it would be fun) and all the sudden I have a bunch of Diaspora contacts - if mostly on my pod - and gosh, what an interesting group of people. (For the last bit before, it had been mostly
randomdreams and I chatting. Because damn it, in order for it to become a successful platform, people have to use it!)By the way, I'm tylik@diasp.org, just as you'd expect ;-)
Most of my Diaspora stuff is still public, and a lot of it forwards to Twitter (and hence Facebook). And Diaspora isn't all the way grown up yet - it still lacks a community feature, for instance, though one is in the works. But it's becoming a more and more interesting platform.
....and also, not Facebook. (Or more to the point, not any particular company, but a network of distributed pods, and respect for user information. I mean, I'm just saying.)
* Like so busy my lab meeting presentation became "This is what I'm doing TA'ing neurobio lab". Admittedly, Dr. C used to be one of the professors that co-taught the class (now it's just Dr. W and I) so he gets it. Actually, all I had to say was "Imagine trying to get a class to set up a different neurobio preparation and get data every week" and everyone else got it.
