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

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

Boasting about emoji integration is wack, for sure.

less consume more commune sounds great until you realize consume is your comfortable background setting for any sm platform and you can't imagine what commune means beyond like 'do nothing'

*calls friend says hi*

Kind of funny to see actual proper beta software in widespread social use, like I added someone as Noise because they're smart but I don't actually know them, and then I had to add them again because lolbeta, but by normal social media metrics that's a weird passive aggressive things to do.

i started a thread on this one once. wonder what happened with it.

http://www.stack.fm/

@mavenmaven add me 4 maven thoughts

there is some charm to "finding your friends" again after years of aggregating people and friend bloat

apparently there will be this:
Love + Love bookmarking stream

i started a thread on this one once. wonder what happened with it.

http://www.stack.fm/

I sort of vaguely know the guy behind it, he made the fairly staggering decision to seek out no less than €100,000 on indiegogo to get it built. Of course the campaign failed dismally because he never managed to satisfactorily explain why he needed so much money to make a social network. So I'm kind of lol'ing now that ello is taking off with the exact same principles that stack had.

Given the initial massive excited burst G+ had and how useless it ended up being, I'm not that moved by this thing.

we had fun for a day or two iirc

not gonna lie, knowing someone's relationship status was often useful

Some people make you 'ask' for that now on fb. Not Useful!

what a stupid feature

@mavenmaven add me 4 maven thoughts

― mattresslessness, Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:11 (Yesterday) Permalink

Glad u could make use of my visionary thread

I sort of vaguely know the guy behind it, he made the fairly staggering decision to seek out no less than €100,000 on indiegogo to get it built. Of course the campaign failed dismally because he never managed to satisfactorily explain why he needed so much money to make a social network. So I'm kind of lol'ing now that ello is taking off with the exact same principles that stack had.

Um, that's an astonishingly small amount for the proposed work, like Ello has 5x that and looks like literal shit (tho that's its 'thing')

I like it because it's more random and isolated feeling than fb or twitter. all my friends do is post animated gifs without context. all the whitespace is nice. it's basically like a stupid messageboard. like ilx!

"looks like literal shit"

looks like figurative shit

akm's top friend.

otm is still available

https://ello.co/markzuckerberg haha

https://ello.co/ass hehehe

Basically it makes me think of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LDVZFHywzg

Um, that's an astonishingly small amount for the proposed work, like Ello has 5x that and looks like literal shit (tho that's its 'thing')

Why does it need €100,000, let alone $435,000, to set up a website? Why does it need any money at all? It's just writing code, which you can do in your spare time. Zuckerberg did it out of his dorm room.

It's the 'gradually turning into unusable shit' that costs the big bucks iirc

you gotta buy a bunch of those computers without monitors, and shelves for them

FYI: EC2 instances cost money.

Holy smokes. They are running on Heroku. A CPU is $34.50 per month ($$$)!

If they are using Heroku Postgres (120 GB RAM, 1 TB storage, 500 connections): $3,500.00 per month!

i.e. the cloud sucks

Can you really not embed images?

I've been told that posts are public and search engine searchable

@mavenmaven add me 4 maven thoughts

― mattresslessness, Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:11 (Yesterday) Permalink

Glad u could make use of my visionary thread

― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

touche schlump

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

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:31 PM (Yesterday)

more backlash
https://aralbalkan.com/notes/ello-goodbye/

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.