App: facilitate transition from FB
As it stands,it takes a lot of motivation and time investment by early adopters to organize a transition to D*.
I recently made an infographic (hosted here: https://github.com/isomerase/join-diaspora-meme) where I propose everyone makes a D* account and leave it dormant until all their friends join, and then switch at once.
The problem is, there's no directory of your FB friends on D* or automatic tools to rebuild your social network.
FB app to facilitate migration
proposal by Richard Decal Closed Thu 17 Dec 2015 8:07PM
1) If you have a D* account, you could authenticate your account. Otherwise, the app shows you a list of available pods, and helps you make an account with your FB credentials.
2) The app would then keep a directory of your FB contacts, which ones have a D address, and which ones don’t. You can choose to invite friends to the app.
3) As your FB friends make accounts, your D* account automatically shares to their accounts.
4) Finally, once you reach a certain threshold percentage of friends on D*, it could send out a notification to everyone letting them know.
Results
| Results | Option | Votes | % of votes cast | % of eligible voters | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agree | 1 | 100 | 3 | ||
| Abstain | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Block | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 39 | 98 |              |
Richard Decal
Mon 14 Dec 2015 8:16PM
I made the proposal so I support it ;)
Richard DecalTue 15 Dec 2015 8:18AM
I think my proposal is unique. The issue you linked is talking about importing your FB data whereas this proposal is about importing your contact network.
Jason RobinsonTue 15 Dec 2015 7:52PM
@richarddecal there is no point in creating proposals before any discussion happens. Proposals are for making a decision, not for discussing.
Richard DecalTue 15 Dec 2015 8:49PM
@jasonrobinson Sorry, I'm new here. So I'm supposed to propose to make a proposal? Wouldn't comment sections become a jumbled mess without threaded conversations?
Jason RobinsonTue 15 Dec 2015 8:52PM
@richarddecal no one has really engaged in discussion yet, so there is not much that can be voted on :)
TBH, really, someone can just do this. No one here needs to "approve it". Open source works in a way that people do things they want, without asking. Go for it :)
Richard DecalTue 15 Dec 2015 9:00PM
@jasonrobinson Ok, I didn't know "proposals" meant "final decision" on Loomio, I thought they meant I make a suggestion and get feedback.
Also, not all participants in the open source community are web devs, and even if I was, I'd want to get feedback first (otherwise, what's the point of this Loomio?).
Jason RobinsonTue 15 Dec 2015 9:01PM
Sure, you are welcome to open discussion. I was just saying that there is no need to vote, imho :) We usually resolve to voting when some people disagree on something.
ElmWed 16 Dec 2015 1:29PM
Hi, this is a good idea so me, I hope someone would know and have the time to do that ! (but maybe FB won't like it and will block it ?).
Deleted account ·Tue 15 Dec 2015 7:42AM
There's already a (really old) issue regarding migration from Facebook to d*.
I don't this proposition controversial (thus I don't really see the need for a vote). The only thing is, while your proposition looks reasonnable and senseful, it looks also highly complex and we're lacking motivated developers :(