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It's not totally a bad thing though is it? Seems almost natural for a social network to start with a sort of single focus

by sehr 11y ago

jarcane 11y ago
No, it's totally a cool place, if that's what you're into. As a writer and a techie though, I struggled to even find anyone else on the network with similar interests, and of those, they seemed to wither away over time. The end result is less a "Facebook-killer" and more a "Tumblr/Pinterest alternative for upmarket artists".
- ay 11y ago
  Indeed, finding nerds on ello is a bit tricky, and as you say some of them went silent after trying it initially. Amongst my friends https://ello.co/danyork https://ello.co/danyork has been impressively insistent in using it, but that's among the only of my friends that managed to sustain the activity there. That said, with iOS client + with freedom re. your data that they seem to have, I plan to switch over more to it for the longer stuff that does not fit into a tweet - it feels pleasant to write there, even if as an archive for myself. I feel Ello so far as a club-like with whiskey and cigars as opposed to a common living room feel that the FB is.
- dredmorbius 11y ago
  My suggestion: be the Ello you want it to be, if you're going to play there. Since Markdown's supported, (with a few quirks), content from any other Markdown-based site works well. You don't need to polish text much. Add in images. They boost viewership. Submit posts to appropriate Communities: https://ello.co/wtf/resources/community-directory/ https://ello.co/wtf/resources/community-directory/ Search (both internal and external search engines) helps turn up stuff related to keywords of interest. The social graph is small. My experience elsewhere (G+) was that it took a few years for a real community to gel. And no, it's not a challenge to HN, StackExchange, or Reddit. Or Facebook or G+, for that matter. Yet. But it's got some good basics and the founding community ain't bad. Good stuff does eventually get noticed and passed around.
- dredmorbius 11y ago
  @ddailey has some amazing SVG examples, I highly recommend him: https://ello.co/ddailey https://ello.co/ddailey There's @ellotech: https://ello.co/ellotech https://ello.co/ellotech And @ellowrites: https://ello.co/ellowrites https://ello.co/ellowrites Search can turn up people writing on topics of interest, say: https://ello.co/search?terms=webdesign https://ello.co/search?terms=webdesign https://ello.co/search?terms=python https://ello.co/search?terms=python (about 90 posts in 9 months) Or you can enjoy the art.

It's not totally a bad thing though is it? Seems almost natural for a social network to start with a sort of single focus

by sehr 11y ago

It's not totally a bad thing though is it? Seems almost natural for a social network to start with a sort of single focus

jarcane 11y ago

No, it's totally a cool place, if that's what you're into. As a writer and a techie though, I struggled to even find anyone else on the network with similar interests, and of those, they seemed to wither away over time. The end result is less a "Facebook-killer" and more a "Tumblr/Pinterest alternative for upmarket artists".

ay 11y ago
Indeed, finding nerds on ello is a bit tricky, and as you say some of them went silent after trying it initially. Amongst my friends https://ello.co/danyork https://ello.co/danyork has been impressively insistent in using it, but that's among the only of my friends that managed to sustain the activity there. That said, with iOS client + with freedom re. your data that they seem to have, I plan to switch over more to it for the longer stuff that does not fit into a tweet - it feels pleasant to write there, even if as an archive for myself. I feel Ello so far as a club-like with whiskey and cigars as opposed to a common living room feel that the FB is.
dredmorbius 11y ago
My suggestion: be the Ello you want it to be, if you're going to play there. Since Markdown's supported, (with a few quirks), content from any other Markdown-based site works well. You don't need to polish text much. Add in images. They boost viewership. Submit posts to appropriate Communities: https://ello.co/wtf/resources/community-directory/ https://ello.co/wtf/resources/community-directory/ Search (both internal and external search engines) helps turn up stuff related to keywords of interest. The social graph is small. My experience elsewhere (G+) was that it took a few years for a real community to gel. And no, it's not a challenge to HN, StackExchange, or Reddit. Or Facebook or G+, for that matter. Yet. But it's got some good basics and the founding community ain't bad. Good stuff does eventually get noticed and passed around.
dredmorbius 11y ago
@ddailey has some amazing SVG examples, I highly recommend him: https://ello.co/ddailey https://ello.co/ddailey There's @ellotech: https://ello.co/ellotech https://ello.co/ellotech And @ellowrites: https://ello.co/ellowrites https://ello.co/ellowrites Search can turn up people writing on topics of interest, say: https://ello.co/search?terms=webdesign https://ello.co/search?terms=webdesign https://ello.co/search?terms=python https://ello.co/search?terms=python (about 90 posts in 9 months) Or you can enjoy the art.