31 thoughts on “Anyone had any thoughts on a new home now G+ is being turned off?”

  1. We are thinking about where to go next! Also, Vincent and I are headed to Big Bad Con this week, so any decision of where we will be will have to wait till next week. I’d love to hear where folks are thinking of heading!

  6. caleb martin I came in here to post that link. As a broader community of roleplayers, it is probably smart to be moving off in a certain direction in a coordinate manner, versus splitting off on a per-user or per-community basis, if we can help it.

  10. caleb martin MeWe also has rumblings about “free speech means hate speech can find a home here”, so I’m not being quick to jump there. I made an account as a name grab, but I’m being cautious, and may delete it.

  13. Meguey Baker Discord it’s super messy imho. It is a cluttered chat with no options for threading. So it’s super demanding attention-wise. I’ve tried to join other people’s Discords, but I can’t keep up. If I look away for half an hour, any conversation I may have been interested in will dissapear under the flood of the chat. It’s good for casual ephimeral chatting but for long term conversations would be a nightmare. Again imho.

  14. Mike Espinoza as a moderately heavy user of Discord (participate in the servers for RoleGate and Ironsworn, moderate the server for Swords Without Master), you are absolutely right. I love Discord, but it is what it is.

  16. I’d say Discord is a “partial solution” – having a solid presence there for both live chat and live gaming (both text and voice) is really nice.

    But as others have said it doesn’t handle long-form conversations or threads well at all. MeWe is being floated a lot but I have the same concerns as others about who it is currently popular with and why. I’m not a fan of Reddit at all but it is established. I can understand why people don’t want to be on Facebook but I’m not sure yet it is a “worse evil” than MeWe.

    Hopefully something like RPGNet can make a huge comeback with this announcement but it is going to be up to them looking into their systems and infrastructure to figure out how to move beyond forums to all the modern social networking features people have become used to.

  17. I hope more people will take it slow and study the options carefully before rushing off and choosing a sub-optimal channel. Every time this happens there’s a stampede, usually not to the best available option – but of course, there’s no point in choosing the best available option if everyone has already moved somewhere else.

  18. The more I learn about MeWe, the more I want nothing to do with it. I’m not looking for an echo chamber, but if Alex Jones and open fascists have been welcomed in and given a platform, it’s not for me. Basically the only limit Vincent and I put on using PbtA or our words in a game is if it supports actual Nazis, so if the reports are true, and I’m seeing more and more of them, we will not be going there.

  20. Diaspora seems like it is meant to do for the G+/FB style of social media, what Mastodon is meant to do for Twitter. Which may well be what this community-of-communities needs.

  21. Meguey Baker It might be worth waiting. OpenBook is supposed to be available in March or April of next year, and as the time draws closer, other options may appear on the horizon.

  24. Eadwin Tomlinson, the dog whistles are right here: ” too many good law-abiding citizens are being censored for nothing more than the political bias of mainstream social media” = “my alt right friends are being told they can’t spew hate speech without any kind of consequences or limits”

    The U.S. First Amendment grant of free speech means that the government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content. A social media platform, or a game company, or a group of people who like to hang out and talk about a thing can For Sure tell someone “Hey, enough with the racist jokes! Not cool!”

    “https://debatereport.com/world/ceo-of-social-network-mewe-mark-weinstein-outraged-at-twitters-suspension-of-james-woods-account/7652.

    debatereport.com – CEO of Social Network MeWe, Mark Weinstein, Outraged at Twitter’s Suspension of James Woods Account

  28. I think Sage is dealing with a sudden, huge influx. I suspect it’s gonna cost him money to pay for the server. I hope he sets up some sort of subscription service so we can support it!

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