On 8 October 2012 03:25, Sandy Harris <sandyinch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Sandy Harris <sandyinch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Bennett Haselton is a well-known activist, founder of the > > anti-censorship Peacefire organisation. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacefire > > http://peacefire.org > > > > He recently made a long Slashdot post on the future > > of social networking, in particular distributed social > > networking > > > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/06/1428210/bring-on-the-decentralized-social-networking > > > > Freedombox is not discussed there. Probably it should be. > > Anyone here care to add an insightful comment? > > There is now a follow-up post, Bennett answering various objections > raised in the previous discussion, and much new discussion. > > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/10/05/1215249/decentralized-social-networking-why-it-could-work > As time goes on the functionality that a walled garden can offer you will reach a ceiling, for them to remain profitable. Free software can offer unlimited functionality in the long term. Not to mention privacy, which it's shown at least 1 in 4 people feel strongly about. Just need a strategy to grow the network effect. Grow virally perhaps? > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >
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