Thunderclap New Year's campaign

:) .... its okay ... i was using 'you' in a subjective way (my subjectivity gets me into a lot of trouble ;p) .... any ideas on the draft ... or subconscious triggers ... to me the facts and rational judgements are blatantly obvious - but its helping the blind thats the objective

i know ... "come to Diaspora .. at least ten of us will sleep with you" .... nah ... doesnt really fill the 140 characters requirement ;) ... i will get to work on a few things ... if you need a bounce...illuminate the Loomio :) good luck/have fun

Ok let's shoot some idea's (132 chars max):

"Facebook ABUSES the most precious thing you ouw: your friendships! It's time for change... Join the FREE PEOPLE at Diaspora!"

"New-Years's resolution: don't let Facebook abuse me and my friends any longer. It's time 4 change! Join the free people at DIASPORA!"

Facebook wants to own my privacy, my creations and my friends? No! 2015 I join DIASPORA, the social world where you are in control.

(btw sorry for my english

Facebook wants to own my privacy, my creations and my friends? No! 2015 I join DIASPORA, the social world where you are in control.

I like this :) Though we need hashtags. So maybe;

Facebook wants to own my #privacy, my creations and my friends? No! #2015 I join #DIASPORA*, the social world where you are in control.

Deadline - I think jan 1st is too soon - unless we do this quick. Like tomorrow or something ;)

Also we need the "longer text", ie explaining why one should participate. And image would be nice too. And time for podmins to maybe spam their users if they want that ;)

Jan 1st would have been nice, but too soon maybe?

@jasonrobinson I think you might be right, 1st is probably too soon to do it really well...

Btw, if you choose the free option on thunderclap you cannot pick a specific end date, they give you about two weeks for "spamming".

We do need an image. Should we create something new, or ask permission to use an image that already exist?

A quick search:

http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/266/1/7/diaspora_wallpaper_by_elektroll-d4anyj4.png

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/projects/5057/photo-main.jpg?1397755301

http://hipertextual.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/16/files/2010/09/diaspora.png

http://www.juliusdesign.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/diaspora-big.jpg

http://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/scaled_full_6e98d9bd22f6e129fbd3.png

http://en.flossmanuals.net/tech-tools-for-activism/organising-networking-online/_booki/tech-tools-for-activism/static/diaspora.png

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dUa9LZcrewg/VECwsSALnzI/AAAAAAAAGek/4GdXe-MRZ9M/w1920-h1080/Diaspora_centrado.png

I agree we are short of time, but I still think we should do something for the 1st of January, at least a small thing... it could be posting a blog article with everything we discussed on the official pages (Facebook, Twitter).

Ah, didn't know Thunderclap needs money to do it effectively. Maybe whatever we can scrape together for a push on 1st of Jan then?

@sumimasen there is a lot of art here too: https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Logos,_icons_and_visual_art

Personally I don't even have time to do the old stuff I've taken on so I'm going to have to just keep as a commenter role here. If @sumimasen you want to take lead and go ahead with this, please do :)

Hey thanx for that page, I hadn't found it yet.
I appreciate you commenting @jasonrobinson
I'll see if I can come up with something good in time. If not, I'll go on preparing for the next opportunity so we have something ready to go.

@sumimasen if you need I'd be happy to help. I really feel its a good time... I know there are people out there wanting to leave Facebook they just don't know diaspora* exists. :-)

This should be announced on d*. More people needed.

@Perig Gouanvic

This should be announced on d*. More people needed.

So, please, @sumimasen @mflo @jakobdee - spread the word on diaspora*!

Forgive me for not doing more, I'm having trouble catching up.

@Perig Gouanvic no worries, buddy ;

I'd love more input! Will share again on d*....

So far I like mflo's suggestion ("Facebook wants to own my #privacy, my creations and my friends? No! #2015 I join #DIASPORA*, the social world where you are in control.")

But this was hardly a brainstorm. We need more sugestions to choose from. Please spend a few minutes to think of a good text (132 chars max)

We have other things to decide

-what image do we use? (I'll look into that today, suggestions or new artwork welcome!!!)

-what webpage do we link to? (I'd say diasporafoundation.org)

-what suppoters goal wil we set? small(100), medium (250) or large(500) (thunderclap will not hit unless goal is reached)

-what date do we want the thunderclap to hit? approxitmately? (I'd say maybe 2nd of january. In that case we should launch the 19th of december)

-we also need a paragraph of two explaining why one should participate for on the thunderclap website. (I would really appreciate some help from an eloquent native english speaker on for this. Anyone up for this, of maybe know someone who is good at this?)

@mflo thanks you want to help out! What would you like to do?

@mflo How can I help? I can translate the texts to French (the framasphere french pod reached 10'000 users on Friday) if Thunderclap allows it. I also assure my daily active help during the campaign :-D on d* and social networks on the French Community.

-image: I think the "I moved to diaspora" image is great for this campagn. I know the one I use for my profile can be used https://free-beer.ch/people/49289360303301324b1a368a90799e46
I also like the picture with the dandelion (the one used for the official FB account). There are loads of dandelion gif maybe

• I'd also say link to diasporafoundation

• medium or large goal. I'm sure we can reach it in 2 weeks.

• 19th of december, let's be crazy!

• For the text,maybe we could use the the ones on the diasporafoundation.org 1st page - (Decentralisation - Freedom - Privacy)

Do you really think 250 to 500 backers is possible?
What are good ways to achieve this?
Is there a way to notify ALL podmins for instance?

I have to head off to somewhere right now, I but will commit tomorrow to putting together a launchable draft with the input that's comming in today (hopefully!!) We can then adjust (and translate) it untill we feel it's good to go. Ok?

Suggestion from Anime Machina:

Do not put the blame on FaceBook it will just vent off more people. I would also add a link or some thing with resources on it like a landing page with all the information.

'Reclaim your Freedom! Join the privacy aware #diaspora* social media network!'

I'd also mention "ad free" - that is how Ello generated their buzz
;)

‘Reclaim your Freedom! Join the ad free privacy aware #diaspora*
social media network!’

Reclaim your Freedom in #2015! Join the ad free privacy aware #diaspora*, the social media network where YOU are in control!

Keep 'm comming!!

Reclaim your Freedom in #2015! Join #Diaspora, the ad free, privacy aware social media network where YOU are in control!

tired of your eaves - dropping? weatherproof your social networking this winter ... choose #Diaspora - privacy aware roofing .......

looking for a social network vehicle that responds to your every manoevure ... join the sporty #Diaspora .. verstatile,fast ... exclusive ... (i guess im aiming at a vague market - but just adding these for fun too :))

@Perig i will keep on with stuff ..have reshared the few D* contacts already ..dont want to alienate them o_0 ... still working out anims ... that is when capitalism hasnt a gun at my head 0_0 ... busy time .phew .. but ask a busy person :) ... they got the momentum ;)

just thought about replacing the lovely word "freedom" with the word "conscience" but maybe a little too heavy?

... reclaim your social media conscience :)

https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Branding

I just leave this here...

OK, I tried to create some options for an image to go with the campaign. Would appreicate feedback!

I used some licence free CC images.

ping @mflo :-)

Great work!!!!!
I love the first one, with the blue sky and the three seeds. It is minimal, simple and evokes freedom

I think the goal is to let potential Facebook refugees know we exist, not to bash FB directly. So I would like to keep it neutral, clean, positve and informative.

Because there is also a link (to diasporafoundation.org) in the thunderclap message we're down to 117 chars unfortuanly. That's why I was pondering having some more text in the image..

However there is also a place for "our story" on the thunderclap page itself so we might aswell put it there and keep the image clean, what do you think?

"Reclaim your freedom in #2015! Join #DIASPORA, the ad free, privacy aware, SOCIAL NETWORK where YOU are in control! " is exaclty 117 chars...

I will go on now collecting text for the "our story" part.
Hope to have a proposal this evening.

I think you are right, it should be a positive message, for the people out there who are looking for another social network but never heard of diaspora.

What do you think about "try" diaspora instead of "join"?

And - but I'm really not sure of that one- "Be free" instead of "Reclaim your freedom".. so we could add "open source" afterwards. But maybe its too ugly?

@jasonrobinson @jhass @Perig Gouanvic would you take a quick peek at the images above and tell me if you think there's something usable there? Thanks!

There are some nice designs there.

The only comment I'd make on first view is to say 'own your data' rather than 'own your own data', to avoid using the same word twice so close together. (Also, if you don't own your data, it's not your own data... if you see what I mean.) But it's just a slightly more tidy phrase.

I wonder about 'Reclaim your freedom, your privacy and your data in 2015!' (the bold is optional). That gets privacy in there as well, and as moving from not owning your data to owning it is reclaiming, I think it fits in there too.

Also, in one of them it says 'Join diaspora'. I wonder about changing that to 'Join us in diaspora*', partly because that sounds more personal and friendly, and also because the phrase 'join diaspora' can encourage the confusion that diaspora = joindiaspora.com, which we've been trying to get away from over the past couple of years.

Does any of that sound useful? I admit I haven't really taken the trouble to understand this campaign, so I might be giving the wrong kind of advice.

@goob thanks, that's really helpful!! You are totally right about own your own, but I took it from diasporafoundation/about page that's why :-) I think I'll change it for tidiness.

I'm not native in English, but to me join us in diaspora sounds a bit weird to me. Maybe join us on diaspora? it does sound more personal, I agree..

Don't worry about the campaign you'll get it when it launches hopefully :-)

Ok here's a draft for the campaign page. Note that the people reading this will be both existing D* users that we want to encourage to participate and contacts of those people that might also be willing to back our campaign.
I am slightly dyslectic so if you spot any typo's let me know ;-)
So here it goes:

Join us on Diapora* and reclaim your freedom, your privacy and your data in 2015!

• it's ad-free!
• it's nonprofit!
• it's decentalized!
• it's privacy aware!
• it's open source!
• it's growing fast!
• it's easy!
• it's for YOU!

With major social media corporations constantly changing their terms of service for the worse, lots of people are looking for alternatives! YOU can help them reclaiming their online freedom by letting them know diaspora* exists!

What can you do to make this campaign a major succes?

• Please back this Thunderclap campain by lending out your Twitter, Tumblr, and/or Facebook account (if you still have one..). If we reach your supporter goal, Thunderclap will blast out a timed Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr post from all your supporters, creating a wave of attention.

• You can make a compelling post on all your social media accounts with a link to this thunderclap website, asking your friends to back the campaign too.

• You might want to post a message to in any (Facebook) groups you are involved in.

• You can embed a link to the campaign page on your blog or website. The code is available on the campaign's project page. Just click the "Embed" link and copy and paste the code into the HTML of your webpage.

• You can send out an email to all your friends refering them to this thunderclap site, asking them to back it up!

• You can talk about it at school or at work :-)

• You can use all the artwork that is provided here to make your messages more attractive, or you can of course create your own!

• If you are following any famous people, policitians, or other public figures you think might be receptive to what diaspora* stands for, consider sending them a tweet or a message kindly inviting the to back te campaign and re-tweet/ re-share.

• And you can ofcourse ask your friends and family to join in (as a christmas present to you :-))

• You probably have some other creative ideas. Share them on diaspra* using the hashtag #thunderclap2015!

Oh you're right, well spotted. I wrote that a long time ago, and I can't think why. I think I did it for emphasis, to try to be clever, but on reading it again I'm not so sure it's so good. I'll revisit that page and might change that text. Thanks!

In/on diaspora is an interesting question: 'on the platform' vs. 'in the network'; I was thinking primarily of 'in the community', which is what we want (I think) to promote diaspora as. I think (as a native English-speaker) that 'in' sounds better, but it's not a definitive decision.

addition:

Be sure to keep the message positive. This isn't set up for bashing other platforms, it is set up to inform people that Diaspora exist so they know they have a choice.

Very good text sumimasen! watch out the forgotten "R"

it’s ad-free!
it’s nonprofit!
it’s decentRalized!

I was wondering, when we discussed the draft earlier, there was the idea to spread that diaspora may not have all the features as other social network, but offers ethical values. Maybe we could add something like that. Just that newbies don't expect too much..

Perhaps “Join the Diaspora!”, using Diaspora as a verb or an action-packed noun, which really, it is.

Regarding lack of features... where are the games at? If I develop a social game myself, could I set it up to work on diaspora?

@zv this is indeed a very good point, kindly start a new discussion, because developers should take your idea into account on a larger scale perhaps :-)

@zv You would need an API. We already have a discussion about that here on Loomio and a pull request on github.

Ok I'm about to submit. I'm considering what @goob said, but I'm having trouble fitting it into those 117 characters.

I suggest we do:

"Reclaim your freedom in #2015! Join #DIASPORA, the ad free, privacy aware, SOCIAL NETWORK where YOU are in control!"

or

Break free in #2015! Join us on #DIASPORA, the ad free, privacy aware, SOCIAL NETWORK where YOU are in control!

or

Reclaim your #freedom, your #privacy and your #data in #2015! Join us on #DIASPORA* the open source social network!

@mflo what do you think?

Great, it's about to start!

I like the "break free" one. it make think of the Queen song, it's good !

I think I agree. Breaking free feels more powerful (and positive) than reclaiming....

So we'll go with that I guess...

What supporters goal should we set? No Idea how this campaign will be received by the community.. my innitial post got a fair amount of reshares but not nothing too impressive..

You seem to be able to adjust the goal during the campaign. Should we be bold and shoot for 250 or 500 supporters, or maybe better to start at 100 and see how people respond?

Yes, let's start with 100 and see... If we can promote over all social medias (all diaspora accounts), that be great

Also, what timezone should we pick? I think it's best to pick US eastern time.. (GMT -5)

If it hits at 12:00 am US eastern time it is 18:00 in europe (GMT +1).
(whereas if it hits at 12:00 GMT it is 06:00 am in US central..)

Agreed. I got another vote for the "break free" version from Anime Machina, so let's go with that one.

Other details:

organizer name
Diaspora*, the social network where you are in control!

Who are you?
Diaspora is a decentralized, nonprofit, ad free, privacy aware, open source social network. In diaspora* you own your data. You do not sign over any rights to a corporation or other interest who could use it without your consent. With diaspora*, your friends, your habits, and your content are YOUR business ...

Title
Join DIASPORA* social network!

category
Community

message link
www.diasporafoundation.org

I tweaked the text i posted earlier a bit and added :

While diaspora may not yet have all the features other social network offer (mind you, the open source community is adding features all the time...!), it does offer you *ethical values** that many other social networks lack! *

Let's hit submit...?

Yes, great! let's go

I just picked that image, can be changed later if we want.

@mflo Can I send you the final text so you can translate it into french?

Sorry to answer now but of course yes, i ll do it as quick as i can

Can you add the french translation to the campaign or the campaign itself will only be in english?

The campaign itself will be in english, as there is no feature for it being multi lingual. But we can add the french translation to the updates section I believe. Never done this before, so not entirely sure, will have to see once the campaign has been approved..

We can also use the text (both french and english) in diaspora posts explaining the campaign I guess.

Oh, and I can make french versions of the promotional images, If you provide me with translations.. :-)

btw, thank you so much for helping out!

fixed some typo's

I'm starting now. watch out, the first diaspora misses an S

No, thank you, you did this ;-)

french version

And we're approved!:
https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/20661-join-diaspora-social-network

@mflo great work! I will add your translation asap! I think (hope) someone is working on a spannish translation aswell. I will do a dutch version.

Tomorrow I will do a kick-off post on diaspora to officially start this thing, let's hope people are up for it :-)

We have the spannish version also, and the german one is being worked on by some people :-)

Awesome work everybody involved! Will push out from official channels. Share share share everyone, even if you don't own a FB or other Thunderclap-compat account!

Oh there is a typo:

You probably have some other creative ideas. Share them on diaspra* using the hashtag #thunderclap2015!

"diaspra*" --> "diaspora*"

Also:

What can YOU do to make this campaign a major succes?

"succes" --> "success"

Thanx Jason, will fix the typo's as soon as i get to a computer tonight. Will post kick off announcement on D* tonight too!
Still working on the translations , but that should be ready tomorrow aswell.

94/100 supporters!! SInce @jasonrobinson posts! Thank you! I think we can change to 250 supporters @sumimasen

It's a shame, I have problems loading diaspora* since yesterday , I coulnd't post the campaign on it

Bummer, hope it's only temporary issues for free-beer.ch :P

250 sounds challenging, maybe 200? Thunderclap will not post it out if we don't reach?

It's either 100, 250 or 500. I'll wait for a bit and raise the bar if we get a bit closer to 250 ;-).

I saw this today >http://www.simplyzesty.com/Blog/Article/December-2012/If-Facebook-Co-Made-Everyone-Honest-Christmas-Cards

Maybe we can also do our Honest christmas card? We can find something ironic... "

Yeah.... Why not? I'm working the next few days, I have no time to contribute much... Do you have an idea?

Maybe a Cerberus Santa Clause (ok, not scarry though), with three heads, bearing "privacy", "open source", "decentralization". Shocking and funny ;)

Well I posted this last night. I didn't know about the thunderclap campaign until just now. I added a link to it in the main body, however.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2qiuyh/tired_of_facebooks_lack_of_ethics_diaspora_could/