Diaspora: Split sharing into sharing and following

[lu-x]

Loomio-Discussion
In short: Following allows getting the posts of an account in your stream without sharing your profile.
One possible UI-implementation:

For further explanation:
Possible states:

a)
Bob follows Alice. Alice doesn't follow or share with Bob.
=> Bob will see all public posts of Alice in his stream.
[Alice won't see Bob's private profile, if she visits his page. I'd also propose not to mention Alice at all, that Bob is following her. However, a follower-count on Alice's profile page would be nice (like on Twitter).]
b)
Bob follows Alice. Alice follows Bob.
=> They both will see each others public posts in their stream, but can not access each others profiles.
c)
Bob follows Alice. Alice shares with Bob.
=> Bob will see Alices public posts and all posts from the aspect Alice put him in. Bob also will see Alice's profile. Alice can not see Bob's profile. Alice will see Bob's public posts in her stream.
d)
Bob shares with Alice. Alice shares with Bob.
=> Both will see each others public posts, as well as all posts from the aspects they are put in. Also, they will see each others profiles.

[denschub]

This clearly lacks a lot of UI thoughts. If you click 'follow', where can you find the posts? How do you assign the follow-action to an aspect? Duplicating aspects is not an option (see loomio) and also just adding a "following" stream is not really nice since we should be able to group the followings...

[lu-x]

a "following" stream is not really nice since we should be able to group the followings...

I never thought of that.

Imho, i would not have a problem with getting the posts (resulting from the following action) in my stream and in a separate "following" stream. Honestly, i don't think people do use aspects much for reading but for sorting their contacts (which means creating different audiences).
So i personally don't like the idea of sorting folllowed accounts by aspects.

[denschub]

Honestly, i don't think people do use aspects much for reading

I do! 😿

[lu-x]

Like i said, it's my personal view and impression :wink: We could start a representative survey for that. Would be interesting to know...