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Re: [LUG] Diasporia

 

> On 11 July 2019 at 07:51 Tom via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
>  
> 
> On 10/07/2019 18:58, maceion@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
> >  
> > On 10/07/2019 18:12, Andy Wills wrote: 
> >  
> > > In my professional life (I'm a university academic) the key social medium 
> > > everyone uses professionally is Twitter. 
> > As one who has never used Twitter or seen any point in it, can you explain why 
> > it is used in Academia? 
> >   
> >   What is the 'lure' of random posts to a website? 
> >   I normally only correspond with those I know. 
> >  
> >  PS My son is an academic and I have never heard him mention Twitter.
> >  
> > -- 
> > Regards
> > Eion MacDonald
> 
> 
> Anyone who has used twitter should realise that (like FB which I use a lot) is 
> totally useless for anything other than shouting into the void.
> 
> 
> I like the idea of diaspora - I have an account somewhere that I tried to set up 
> but billy-no-mates! I feel it may be worth another look as it should be a way to 
> go if they can get to the point where you can rip out your account and move it to 
> another server.
> 
> 
> I'm on https://joindiaspora.com/ as madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx but that doesnt 
> seem to work as an email!
> 
> 
> Anyone want to play - we can see if we can get something going via diaspora and  a 
> thread here?
> 
> 
> Tom te tom te tom


I have just added you and created the 'aespect' DCGLUG ....whatever that means ?


Jon
 

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