dredmorbius@diaspora.glasswings.com
Doc Morbius

#Pluspora Final Days --- Shutdown likely on 1 April 2022

For those who are still on the Pluspora Pod, final shutdown will be imminent in the next days. The planned shutdown date is 1 April 2022 so far as I'm aware.

The announcement and updates are here:

FOLLOW UP ON PLUSPORA POD CLOSURE

https://sites.google.com/talesfrombabylon.com/pluspora/home

Announcement on Diaspora:

"It is with a heavy heart that we come to you with this post."

Federated copies:
- https://diasp.org/posts/f09b32d07568013a3ddf005056264835
- https://diasp.eu/posts/f09b32d07568013a3ddf005056264835
- https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/f09b32d07568013a3ddf005056264835

Archives: post:

https://archive.is/cuztp https://archive.is/rHhLP https://archive.ph/h3aw4

Things you should do NOW

  • Create a new profile elsewhere if you have not already. Diasp.org, Glasswings, and several other pods have welcomed well-behaved members. I can offer invites to Glasswings on request.

  • Tell others where you've gone, and where you've come from. That is, leave a FORWARDING address on your old Pluspora profile, and a PREVIOUS address on your new profile elsewhere. Posts tagged with #SIGNALFLARE will be easier for others to find as well.

  • If you have any thought that you might want to retain your old posts / content, archive that NOW. Note that given the passing of David Thiery, support for failed exports is unlikely, but you can at least try. Content cannot presently be imported to a Diaspora pod, but may be in the future. I've created numerous tools for working with that data described in posts below.

  • Federation will preserve at least some of your content on Diaspora*. This means that having followers on other Pods is highly useful. I've explored the possibilities and limits of this further elsewhere.

  • I've created tools and methods for archiving content, including automated submission of posts to the Internet Archive, and manual submission to Archive Today. Both rely on having a downloaded archive of your older content.

  • Follower / Block lists are not importable. You'll have to re-establish contact with people generally manually. Given that many Pluspora contacts were on Pluspora itself ... this may be complicated. The regular #Checkin posts are an excellent way to get back in touch with the community.

  • If you want your Profile Bio Page to be world-readable, you need to set that specifically at /profile/edit. Toggle "Visibility of your extended profile" to "Public".

  • If nothing else, you can save your Profile page at https://pluspora.com/u/<username> to the Internet Archive and Archive Today manually by visiting https://web.archive/org/save/ and https://archive.today. Do this after leaving a forwarding address to make your new profile easier to find.

  • Please do NOT delete your profile or posts if you wish for federated copies to remain available elsewhere. Unfortunately this is something of an unclean break. Deleting your profile will delete all your posts / comments to other pods.

Resources

Continuation / informational sites

There are a Pluspora Wiki and a Twitter group:

Data Migration Posts

The following posts offer tools and lessons learned in my own recent Pod migration.

Diaspora* Data Migration and Archival Lessons Learned

This is a summary of my discoveries and learning over the past two months or so concerning Diaspora* data archives and references as well as JSON and tools for manipulating it, specifically jq. ...

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/fbf5b8f077f9013a6e0d448a5b29e257

Diaspora Migration Tips and Questions Thread

I’m going to be posting suggestions and questions regarding migrating between and/or preserving Diaspora* profile data....

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/e0b4d980545c013a0103448a5b29e257

Diaspora* Migration & Data Archival: Finding your First Remote-Pod Followers

Federated content is likely to be found on remote pods from which profiles first followed you. You can find your earlierst remote-pod followers by going through your Notifications. Just note the pod.

This content may not be universally available to others, but offers some alternatives to archival in a pinch.

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/feaae8207c8d013a5b1e448a5b29e257

As a reminder: I was not a Pluspora member, though I'd revived my Diaspora* profile with the shutdown of Google+ in 2019, so many, many, many centuries ago... I did move recently from the now-defunct #Joindiaspora pod to my new home on Glasswings.

#DataMigration #DiasporaMigration #Pluspora #GooglePlus #Diaspora #DiasporaMigration #Migration #Diaspora #Help #Tips #DataArchves #Archives #Plexodus

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