sharing vs. following
if you start sharing with someone your profile is shared with that person (respectively the owner of this account).
in my opinion this is not necessary. there should be an option to follow an account without sharing your profile.
i think there are 2 options to handle this:
1. allow users to create one profile for each aspect (problem: which profile is shown to people which are in more than one aspect?)
2. differentiate between sharing and following => sharing means also sharing your profile. following means sharing without sharing your profile.
Poll Created Fri 11 Mar 2016 9:11AM
Should sharing be split into **sharing** and **following**? Closed Mon 11 Apr 2016 8:07AM
I'll cite Jason's comment (which for me hits the nail on the head):
> I’ve always thought the way diaspora does sharing/following is hugely broken.
> Sharing and following should be different things. And also I should be able to share, without following.
> In short;
* Adding someone to an aspect would grant them access to your profile - you are now sharing with them
* Following someone does not give access to the person - you are only following their public posts, or whatever posts they are exposing to you.
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 83.3% | 15 |
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| Abstain | 16.7% | 3 |
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| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 133 |
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18 of 151 people have participated (11%)
lukas
Fri 11 Mar 2016 10:57AM
:clap:
Roland Haeder
Sat 12 Mar 2016 5:27PM
I like this way more, so you can decide between "friend" and "fan/admirer" (similar to Friendica).
CSammy
Tue 15 Mar 2016 11:39AM
This view of sharing vs. following reflects how I use d*. Bots and blogs don't need access to my profile, however I might want to get their posts.
Dennis Schubert
Wed 16 Mar 2016 2:42AM
If someone comes up with an idea on how to realize this without completely blowing our database or the stream queries... feel free.
Jonne Haß
Tue 22 Mar 2016 12:08PM
I don't see a clear UX concept here regarding grouping posts your follow, duplicating aspects for both actions seems confusing. If that's solved cleanly, go ahead.
Corvus Schwarzfeder
Tue 29 Mar 2016 11:16AM
I also see the problem of complicated stream queries. In case of this question I'm for speed over data privacy.
Elm Fri 11 Mar 2016 10:07PM
Hi, there could be a third way to do that : select for each aspect if your profile is visible or not for contacts in this aspect. That way you could easily have a "just following" aspect. And it makes possible for "users you share with but do not allow to see your profile" (i.e. users you simply follow, but have been notified that you share with them) to contact you with a personnal message which is only possible for users you share with. This later point has not been taken into account in this discussion I think.
Miko · Fri 11 Mar 2016 9:31AM
Yes, I d appreciate it a lot. 2 organize by aspects is not as smooth in reality, I ve tried that; I can t get related to channel spamming by #tags-> does that need explanation? can relate 2 Jason's comment, I also ignore people to ensure a nice and interesting stream.