"There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader."[1]

[firecat]

I'm not anybody's leader, but that's the quote I thought of when a bunch of people I know suddenly connected with me on Diaspora.

This is me on Diaspora: https://joindiaspora.com/people/40926
Or you can search for Firecat Stef.

I don't have much of my profile filled out yet.

There's a box on the side of my stream that says "Invite your friends," so perhaps I have invites to give out. If you want one, tell me the email address you want me to send the invite to. Comments aren't screened on this post but you can send me a Private Message or email me at firecatstef at gmail dot com.

I also have a profile on diasp.org, but I'm completely confused about how that connects to diaspora.org, if at all. https://diasp.org/people/20847 or Firecat Stef. I don't think you need an invite to sign up for diasp.org.

ETA: Based on what eagle said, I deleted my diasp.org account, and if you're there, I guess you can find and follow my diaspora.org account.

[1]Attributed, probably incorrectly, to Alexandre August Ledru-Rollin.

Comments

[eagle]

My understanding of how they connect is that no one is just, for example, "eagle" in Diaspora. Instead, I'm eagle@joindiaspora.org, where the bit after the @ is a "pod," similar to a domain name for e-mail addresses. All the identities are scoped, and pods exchange information so that you can follow people in other pods as if they were in your own pod. That means that anyone can set up a new pod and link into the network, sort of like setting up a new Usenet server, and each pod can set its own policies, identity verification methods, authentication, and so forth as it chooses.

I don't know if the system as yet supports aliasing so that you can tell the system that two identities in different pods are both you.

[firecat]

I just searched for you from my diasp.org account and found your joindiaspora.org account. I know that when I set up the diasp.org account, finding people across pods wasn't working, but I guess it's working now.