Indeed, finding nerds on ello is a bit tricky, and as you say some of them went silent after trying it initially.
Amongst my friends https://ello.co/danyork has been impressively insistent in using it, but that's among the only of my friends that managed to sustain the activity there.
That said, with iOS client + with freedom re. your data that they seem to have, I plan to switch over more to it for the longer stuff that does not fit into a tweet - it feels pleasant to write there, even if as an archive for myself.
I feel Ello so far as a club-like with whiskey and cigars as opposed to a common living room feel that the FB is.
Amongst my friends https://ello.co/danyork has been impressively insistent in using it, but that's among the only of my friends that managed to sustain the activity there.
That said, with iOS client + with freedom re. your data that they seem to have, I plan to switch over more to it for the longer stuff that does not fit into a tweet - it feels pleasant to write there, even if as an archive for myself.
I feel Ello so far as a club-like with whiskey and cigars as opposed to a common living room feel that the FB is.