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Ask HN: Migrate from Google+ to what exactly?

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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...

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I 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)

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.

I use Rapidweaver for my website so this is not an option until I move to a different toolchain. Will check netlify, thanks.

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...

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.

If you go with blogspot, you can also use pages to better organize posts. You have an RPG page and a calligraphy page and you list new posts on the appropriate page. If you remember to do it consistently at the time you create the post, it's an extra 30 seconds of work. It's only a pain if you forget for long periods and have to devote time to going back through a bunch of posts

Tags seem to me to be the best solution because sometimes a post would have been shared to multiple circles: e.g. a link to an article about historical Samurai weapons/tactics could go to "martial arts", "Japanese language and culture", "Role playing games".

I'm going to leave https://hashnode.com/ here, because I enjoy it.

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Thanks, I registered and will follow it for a bit, but I doubt I can convince many to follow me there :(

WordPress blog

diaspora* works very similarly.

Mastodon!

There is a wonderful tech community in mastodon.

Mastodon?

Diaspora?

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