"Brian St. Pierre" <br...@bstpierre.org> writes: > > On 06/17/2012 12:13 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > What I will say, and maybe people will notice something in the phrasing..., > > is that you're all welcome to sign up on identi.ca, > > and follow me on status.hackerposse.com. > > Thanks for the phrasing of that pointer. It looks like it has support > for private groups. Is it something like what I've seen google's > "circles" described as? (I don't use google's social thing.)
The most natural analogy for me is that groups in StatusNet are like mailing-lists in e-mail. You subscribe to the group, and anything posted to the group shows up in your timeline. Public groups are like mailing-lists with public archives: anyone can join, and non-members don't receive the group's notices in their timelines, but messages posted to a public group are themselves `public' by default so anyone can see them in the group's public timeline. You can explicitly mark a message as `private' when you post it, though, which means that it's hidden from the public timelines (or `excluded from public archives', in e-mail list terms). Private messages posted to a person are visible only to that person (and, obviously, only when the person is logged in). Private messages that *aren't* posted specifically *to* anyone (e.g.: either to a user or a group) are private to the *site*, meaning that anyone with an account there can see them, but they have to be logged in. This might be useful, say, if you wanted to run a StatusNet site for your family, where you have `family newsletter' stuff that you want to want to share with everyone in your tribe but not with outsiders, but you all still get the opportunity to follow news-sources outside the family and relay it to, or comment on it within the safe confines of, your tribe. Private messages posted to a group are visible only if you're logged into the site *and* you're a member of the group. Private groups require people trying to join to be approved before they become members, and messages sent to a private group are automatically flagged as private to the group, so that users have to be logged into the site and be a member of the group in order to see them at all. You can also just `make the whole site private', such that the only thing that outsiders can ever see is the `login: ...' page. That's what you get if you sign up for a `private statusnet site' by plugging your e-mail address into <http://status.net/>. The caveat for that, is that it prevents the site from federating with other sites. > Is there support built-in for posting photos? Or would that require > some add-on app/service? You can attach photos/videos to posts, or link to ones hosted elsewhere, and StatusNet will put a thumbnail into the post; e.g.: http://status.hackerposse.com/notice/6463 > I used facebook for a while but deleted my profile. (Some key friends > have also deleted profiles, so the utility that *was* there has fallen > way off.) I liked the ability to see pix of friends' kids and stuff > like that. Didn't like the games & spammy stuff. Are these `friends with cute kids' all just floating around with nowhere to post that stuff, now that they've left Facebook? Or, what are they using? > I'd like a way to share photos, an occasional short video, and > status-y kind of stuff. > > That's all easy enough for *me* to do, but: > > (A) I don't want to post everything publicly. > (B) I don't want to have to create accounts for friends & family to be > able to see stuff behind a privacy wall. (E.g. private posts in > WordPress) Partly because it's a hassle for me. Partly because it's a > hassle for them, and certain friends & family are unlikely to use it, > or will bug me to remind them how to log in every time something new > is posted. So you want something where your friends/family can login with accounts that they already have from Facebook or something, right? StatusNet has connectors for other sites, so that they can actually do that--see for example: https://identi.ca/main/facebooklogin The barrier there is likely to be: getting them to believe you. (though, I have had one person tell me: "I keep them separate because I don't want the people on Facebook to see what I post on identi.ca"...) > (C) I'd ideally like a platform that allows posting by multiple users, > with the same administrative constraints mentioned in (B). > > -Brian > (PS status.hackerposse.com's git is 403) Not if you pass the URL to *git*, it isn't. :) There's really nothing inside http://status.hackerposse.com/.git that you'd want to look at in your web-browser, anyway. It's just a `bare' git repository--I'm not running gitweb or anything like that. -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
