request and share contacts to ease discovery
Pirate Praveen
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One advantage centralized services have is the ability to search and find people using just their names. In diaspora we have to use their full address if were to find a person who us on a less known pod. This could be simplified by friend suggestions. We should be able to easily choose contacts and send it to friends. They should get a notification and a new aspect in contacts list as suggested friends. If we can't find a person by their names, we should be able to request our contacts in a easy format if they know the id of the person we are interested in.
Globulle
Tue 3 Mar 2015 8:27AM
I miss this feature each time a friend of mine joins D*
Amy
Wed 4 Mar 2015 1:08PM
I like this idea. I think it'd be useful when family and friends join. I also follow people for their work, and I think it'd enrich that aspect. I don't see a privacy issue if it's easy and clear to opt out.
y.semin
Thu 5 Mar 2015 2:09PM
Like J. Haß.
A clearer idea, clearly bounded, would be much appreciable.
Tirifto
Thu 5 Mar 2015 8:31PM
This would be a nice feature, if done in a subtle way.
Florian Staudacher
Sat 7 Mar 2015 11:01AM
I'm not against "recommending" profiles to other people per-se, but I think we have to flesh this out some more, first.
bh
Mon 9 Mar 2015 4:40AM
In fact, not necessary.
Faldrian
Mon 9 Mar 2015 6:43AM
Everything in diaspora is "pull" so far - YOU determine what you want and go and get it. I don't want "push" behaviour like "Oh, this may interest you! nudge nudge"
dremodaris
Mon 9 Mar 2015 9:58AM
Since a contact is represented by a string (their address), and sharing strings is already possible, I don't see any danger for our privacy. This is just GUI-sugar for something that is already possible but not in a practical way. Good idea.
Steffen van Bergerem
Mon 9 Mar 2015 10:49AM
I agree with Jonne.
Pirate Praveen
Mon 9 Mar 2015 12:24PM
Withdrawing this proposal for a clearer one