On 03/03/2013 08:45 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > Yes, it's unfortunate that facebook will resort to these tactics. > *** I cannot find it unfortunate, but rather a normal consequence of their position. Facebook was never made to empower communities, but to exploit the social graph, and the contempt of Zuckerberg for his users is not a secret.
> They have probably have the best adoption and interoperable technology > in the world, but they dont always use it for good. > *** I fear I won't ever be able to agree with you on that topic. I agree with Jacob Appelbaum and Dmitry Kleiner that Facebook, and most centralized social networking platforms, that happen to be commercial, have surveillance as the foundation of their business model. > (well elgg had a good try imho, but 2 devs can only do so much), > and LAMP has become quite unfashionable these days, so the gap has got > wider. > *** Yes, working with small teams has its drawbacks. But we're trying with Lorea to upscale our reach to developers. I agree that the technology is not the best, but as far as PHP is concerned, I think Elgg offers the best potential for success. Moreover, n-1 benefits from a strong support base, where inhabitants--as we call "users" have an exceptional resilience on the network's glitches and flow in for ethical reasons. > Given that there are no alternatives people sort of feel trapped in > facebook, but because all their friends are there, it's hard to leave... > *** They are. My take is that fixing the federation for good, and providing easy access to the code, by packaging it GNU-style, and shipping it to the major GNU/Linux distros, can provide a space for more contributions, and better interoperability with other projects. That position is half of what prompted me to start the GNU/consensus project. The other half is that I believe there is a path from the current situation to a fully peer-to-peer solution, given that we can cooperate over time to ensure seamless convergence. My mantra for this: localhost, where your social networking belongs. == hk
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