"Brian St. Pierre" <br...@bstpierre.org> writes: > On 06/18/2012 12:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > "Brian St. Pierre" <br...@bstpierre.org> writes: > > > > > > Is there support built-in for posting photos? Or would that > > > require some add-on app/service? > > > > > > 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? > > It's fractured. Some people email, some use other photo-sharing (eg > shutterfly). Some people send dead trees via snail mail. Some have > gone dark. Some are still on facebook, but since *I'm* not there I > don't get the updates. Some people I was never really close enough > (friends-of-friends, we've met a few times at parties, etc) to that > we'd go to the effort of intentionally emailing each other with photos > & updates, but the semi-promiscuous FOAF-level sharing on facebook was > mutually interesting. I think a couple of geek friends have their own > self-hosted photo albums, but I don't necessarily have an easy > mechanism for seeing/discovering their new stuff.
A few specific thoughts: * If your friends are posting public things publicly, even if they're not using StatusNet, you may already be able to use StatusNet to subscribe to them. WordPress, tumblr, and a number of other sites/platforms provide feeds that StatusNet can use to federate with them. * If your friends are posting things privately and you need to log into their sites, you may be able to use your StatusNet account to do that: StatusNet functions as an OpenID provider as well as being able to authenticate users using other OpenID providers. And the same goes for other people logging into your site. * It's apparently possible to hook MediaGoblin into StatusNet, if you want more advanced `photo- and video-sharing' than what's built-into StatusNet directly, per this thread: http://identi.ca/conversation/94435419 * There's also a `Gallery' plugin for StatusNet, which looks like it was pretty neat when it worked (in the StatusNet 0.9 era)..., but has fallen into disrepair: http://identi.ca/conversation/94435406 http://gitorious.org/statusnet-gallery -- "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/