Setting up @WithKnown
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Because it is what all of the cool kids are up to, and because I think it is the beginnings of a trend in post-SocialMedia I've been spending my lunch hour having a little play with an application called "Known".
Thanks to the fine work of the folks at @ReclaimHosting #giveTimmmmyboyARaise it was ready and waiting on my cPanel, and the magic of installatron meant that it took the barest minimum of clicks.
I then proceeded to the front end to make myself a profile and to add some plug-ins. Of primary interest to myself were stuff like the Twitter and Facebook plugins, which allow me both to post onto said networks and collate replies back onto the "master" copy of my post here at http:/
Also of interest are the differing means of posting natively (a long-form post like this one, an image, a link, a check-in, whatever...) which are then shared via my instance of known and any social media platform I happen to select.
This is interesting and important for a number of reasons, but I'll give you one example.
Like many people I am keen to move away from Facebook and lessen my reliance on twitter, and to keep my own copies of conversations that happen on there. Known, as a tool, allows me to keep sharing and discussing things across various platforms, but to retain (reclaim!) my ownership of what I share and what happens afterwards. So all those conversations I start on twitter, or that range between twitter and facebook, can be preserved.
It's still in a very early stage so there are things "missing", most fundamentally a wordpress integration (so I can save tweet conversations around my blog posts, for example) and some kind of link to a video hosting site (vimeo, youtube etc). I'd love a lightweight smartphone integration too, so "share with Known" becomes an Android option.
But it is interesting, and I intend to keep experimenting with it to see how it grows and develops.
More about Known: http:/
My Known instance: http:/
