AWers on Ello

Ello is a new, small, no-frills, still-in-beta social media site started several months ago. Last week some well-read online blogger (and a member of a subset that is more negatively affected by Facebook's policies than the overall population) recently wrote yet another article on the many problems with Facebook as seen from the user's perspective, and happened to mention Ello as favorable (even if not quite ready for prime time) alternative. Thus, sudden explosive growth, and I heard about it.

Here's Ello's "about" page, which certainly reads like a reaction to Facebook:
https://ello.co/wtf/post/about-ello

Here's my Ello addy/ID/whatever:
@benbradley
(and no, that's NOT my Twitter ID, that's one of the several other Ben Bradleys who got to Twitter before me -Ello has adopted the convention of starting IDs with @ - I've seen at least one other forum in addition to Twitter do this)

The equivalent web URL for my ID on Ello (so it's clickable) is:
https://ello.co/benbradley

As it says, Ello is currently invite-only (like Gmail and some other things were when they started), but I can send you and invite if you PM me with an email address that gets to you. If I get deluged, it may take a while to get back to you. If I run out of invites (ISTR it's limited to 25), I'll respond saying so, but someone else should have posted here with their ID by then, and you can bug them.

WriterBN said:

I think I'm going to start YASM (yet another social media) site called gbye. Anyone with me?

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I think you're too late (and if Ello goes nowhere, it'll be far from the first to fail).

That might have been Google Wave waving goodbye. Okay, that was supposed to be some sort of collaborative suite, not a social site. Maybe it was Google Schemer waving goodbye.

Regardless, a site isn't "here to stay" until Google or Facebook buys it for a billion dollars.

BTW, the response has been overwhelming, but I think I might have a few invites left.