Yes definitely what we needed was more social media: the Ello thread

when i think back to 2014, i def think "you know what I could have used is even further brain balkanization"

NB if you are looking for invites go here ello invites

Yes definitely what we needed was the visionary D-40 thread Yes definitely what we needed was more social media: the Ello thread

is ello your girlfriend?

why u mad

gucci isnt on it so i guess im never joining

so is it like… british?

is anyone posting to it or?

i looked at this yesterday, i don't know if i'm being pedantic but this seems kinda weak considering this thing's usp is no ads:

How does Ello support itself?
Ello is free.

We occasionally offer special features to our community of users. You can choose to support Ello by paying a very small amount of money to add that feature to your Ello account.

You're never obligated to pay anything, but by choosing to buy a feature for a very small amount of money now and then you support our work, and help us make Ello better and better.

like offer & special & choose & very small amount feel kinda generically, persuadingly ad-ish for a passage wedged into a manifesto full of righteous & puritan anti-advertising bluster.

I know everyone is suspect of this but it's kind of fun to have no real names and people just posting random gifs. I'm sure it'll get boring and stupid eventually.

I know everyone is suspect of this but it's kind of fun to have no real names and people just posting random gifs. I'm sure it'll get boring and stupid eventually.

It's called tumblr and it's been around for several years now.

Is Ello the next makeoutclub?

People getting snarky about this creating strawmen who are signing up for Ello because they buy into its idealism or aesthetic when people are signing up because why not, it's free and other people are doing it and maybe it'll be cool but it'll be easy to ditch if it's not.

People getting snarky about this creating strawmen who are signing up for Ello because they buy into its idealism or aesthetic when people are signing up because why not, it's free and other people are doing it and maybe it'll be cool but it'll be easy to ditch if it's not.

otm

Does any part of this thing actually work correctly

I've already seen enough people who ARE buying into its idealism etc. that I can say it's not just strawmen.

it's weird that this goes back to "no real names"
apparently the movement toward integrity of selves has had its critics

this is basically twitter and tumblr right

I've already seen enough people who ARE buying into its idealism etc. that I can say it's not just strawmen.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:05 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe ... I ... am the straw man

Honestly it doesn't seem very good right now.

It looks bad enough on a desktop. I've heard it's useless on a phone.

the most interesting thing about this is how everyone was THANK GOD SOMETHING THAT'S NOT FACEBOOK

Without likes or favs, it doesn't have that instant gratification of people approving of something you posted without actually commenting on it. It seems shallow but people post on social media for that tiny charge of accomplishment.

i def do

Great post.

?

Just a joke. Giving you a verbal fav so you could have that charge of accomplishment.

omg ty

curious why this is gaining traction suddenly when other similar things have failed

exclusivity imo. anything site that has a modern design + invite only will make at least a little bit of buzz

Not sure. G+ and Diaspora had the same invite-only beta periods, and Diaspora also had the anti-advertising stance and all the advance word of mouth that ended up resulting in nothing. Ello is obviously backed/steered by some shadow PR person/org to get so viral so fast.

g+ and diaspora had similar buzz and invite seeking iirc

curious why this is gaining traction suddenly when other similar things have failed

― ciderpress, Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:58 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gays

people are just bored and there's a relative lull in the outrage-cycle rn, so this is something to go "huh" at for a minute.

i said something on fb last night like "it's the 'hey, squirrel!" nature of the internet." fb has been running on fumes for so many years, it's surprising its replacement hasn't come along already (twitter serves a different purpose).

This has a different angle to both twitter and facebook (but maybe closer to the former than the latter) - your grandfolks aren't on it and Diddy isn't on it, and that seems to be a definite selling point in both cases.

There's a certain amount of "Oh boy now I can just follow my friends", which I remember fondly from the dawning of Facebook :)

I do like though that if you're following someone, the two categories are 'Friends' and 'Noise'.

the entire visual aesthetic screams "steampunk without the frills" to me

xp: and no inspirational/self-actualization/libertarian image macros!

can u embed imgs from elsewhere somehow or do you have to upload them to do that

No embeds.

i see others embedding

Then why did you ask?

god

What is your Ello name, I really really want to follow you on there

Hi. Is there someone good at answering questions here, preferably not a librarian, who could tell me if it is possible to post a picture on this new thing called Ello without downloading the picture to your computer then uploading it. Thanks!

Literally googled "embeds on ello"

http://gizmodo.com/what-is-ello-1639054383

You can post short messages, add photos, and @ reply your fellow Ello-ers. You can add links and whatnot, but no embeds (yet, presumably), however Ello does boast in-line emoji integration.

welp
https://ello.co/waxpancake/post/oy73kFfDdhOPh8Jv9z9pFA

'boast'
i am so sure
that's like the tumblr error msg i got today 'something is wack'

welp
https://ello.co/waxpancake/post/oy73kFfDdhOPh8Jv9z9pFA

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:31 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh wello

My chosen username is not actually in use on the site, which is why I want to grab it NOW.

I would totally nab a popular name/company's name now, just in case it does blow up. Then get a bit of cash when you sell it later.

Companies are already exercising rights to deny users names. Clickhole did it to someone yesterday.

I guess if you have a legitimate reason for taking that username and the company isn't huge/public, it'd be easier to pull off?

I think there has been some legislation passed against that sort of thing since the original days of domain name squatting

http://www.nissan.com/Lawsuit/The_Story.php

^ informative read

ok i just posted a gigantic image to the three people who can see it

i always want to be in on the goldrush just to stake out my space but really this looks so eh

what does "noise" mean? noise is a good thing imo, so i am confused

When someone posts too frequently and isn't entertaining enough, you can move them into the "noise" feed so that it won't ruin the flow of your hilariously engaging "friends" feed

dang that's cold!

Someone who understands a lot more about design than me explains why the design is terrible:

https://medium.com/@jvdgoot/ello-a-design-disaster-d53022ab3a62

*farts*

ironically, if this were ello that would signify the equivalent of liking my post

I attempted to post a link to http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com with the tag "looking forward to Ello's inevitable appearance here" but Ello wouldn't let me, lol

I gather noise is like ILX's killfile

"noise" kind of seems like "people I will not defriend but only check their feed if I'm really really bored" which makes sense to me as a feature. I have a feeling facebook's newsfeed algorithm overthinks things and probably creates feedback loops with seeing certain people's stuff while letting me entirely forget about other people.

When someone posts too frequently and isn't entertaining enough, you can move them into the "noise" feed so that it won't ruin the flow of your hilariously engaging "friends" feed

How is this any different from the "unfollow" (nb: not unfriend) function in FB? I already have a reasnoably large list of "friends" whose posts I pretty much never see on my FB feed because who wants 237846785648935 posts about puppies to be rescued from pounds/puppies beaten by their owners/OMG SAVE ALL THE PUPPIES. Not to mention the compulsive "post six youtubes a day" music fiends.

I'm hardass with FB. I have only ever blocked one person, and defriended maybe 10, the rest I simply unfollow, and add to a filter so when I post they dont see my posts, so for all intents and purposes to them, I dont use FB (jokes on you, you boring meme posting hippies).

ello.co

2014-2014

haha

What Was Ello?: A Symposium

fuckin' ello sending me earnest messages about their monetary philosophy when they still haven't given me an invite, smh

Someone on my FB feed today liked an AFP post informing all and sundry she's on ello now. Says it all really.

yeah got same today, do not have invite yet, feel like I'll be getting a "goodbye" e-mail before I ever get one

Guys, pm me I'll get you invites

do you have guess papers as well?

fuckin' ello sending me earnest messages about their monetary philosophy when they still haven't given me an invite, smh

lol same

um, yes?

Xpost

Hey everyone! Am I late?

http://img.ifcdn.com/images/99c80658004ac516991918fc63fcd207664ea5f937e73e91a0a9fcf6f0b66400_1.gif

I'm starting to see ello talk on my FB again...is the renaissance imminent?

I haven't discontinued the emails yet, so I know they just implemented emojis! That must be what's kickstarting the renaissance. :P

advertising-free ello was pleased to email me this morning about the new Ello x Threadless T-shirt store

http://i.imgur.com/L6HFZoV.png

Fucking thank your for your continuous stream of sparsely designed & absolutely uninteresting bullshit marketing emails, ello.

Just checked, it's still there.

This reminds me a lot of the delusional kid who would start yet another pointless campus litmag because, you know, the other ones just weren't getting it right and only he had the vision to create something truly underground and beautiful drawing on the same crappy talent pool as every other publication on campus

Just checked, it's still there.

And again, still there. The most recent post in my follow feed is from October 2014.

I'll be happy when people ello takes the place of poor misunderstood Google+ as the butt of social media jokes.

March is NSFW Month on Ello!

http://gizmodo.com/ellos-death-rattle-will-you-stay-if-we-give-you-porn-1689003075

this is still going, and now branded as 'the creators network'.
just logged in for the first time in years.
its not the most compelling experience.

I still get the emails

i logged in purely to switch the emails off, and thought i would have a bit of a wander around.
as i am not a creator i got bored very quickly.

yes whenever I get an email from ello I think "hahahaha I remember that". you'd think the timing would be ripe for a compelling FB alternative again, now, but we'll see. ello ain't it

'...ellooooooooooo!'

you'd think the timing would be ripe for a compelling FB alternative again, now, but we'll see. ello ain't it

another reason i thought i'd have a look to see if it had improved given all the original hype re 'no adverts ...' etc.
turns out it hasn't at all.
admittedly the site seems to work better, but i care not re an excess of art student projects (things i just dont care about #32).

tumblr and instagram both already exist, so...

Remember when?

Anyway it disappeared last year. A post-mortem.

https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/

yeah i went to look for it a while ago and found several other things that now use the Ello name

woof, that article is a burn.