You might be able to find signing social meetups as well as classes. Also I don't know if it's common in your area, but I know a lot of parents of young children who are learning ASL (perhaps a modified form of it?) because it is easier for a child to learn to sign than to speak. So it is gaining popularity, which is really neat.
Culturally speaking people on Diaspora seem very friendly so far; it's also very diverse especially in languages. I'm monolingual but no one has seemed to mind that. People seem to be nice about dropping in and saying hi and sharing neat things.
I treat it as a public-only network, like twitter, so if they turn out to have any security issues then it won't be a problem for me. Like twitter, you can do hashtag searches and it will show users who list that tag as an interest, as well. It's changed a lot recently; I had dropped down to be entirely quiet for a few months, then resumed when Google+ started having problems, and it was a much busier place when I returned.
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on 2011-08-28 08:18 (UTC)Culturally speaking people on Diaspora seem very friendly so far; it's also very diverse especially in languages. I'm monolingual but no one has seemed to mind that. People seem to be nice about dropping in and saying hi and sharing neat things.
I treat it as a public-only network, like twitter, so if they turn out to have any security issues then it won't be a problem for me. Like twitter, you can do hashtag searches and it will show users who list that tag as an interest, as well. It's changed a lot recently; I had dropped down to be entirely quiet for a few months, then resumed when Google+ started having problems, and it was a much busier place when I returned.