I think the point is that Facebook can not be defected, like MS can't be defeated. The point is to make a service that shows how to do it the correct way, in effect what Firefox did to IE etc. I think what Sean was pointing out ( and what I was hinting at in a sarcastic manor ) is that for people to use it, it must reach out to existing social nets. Thus the point is to highlight that Facebook is like putting up posters around town with your status, and this may show there is a way to share information with a select group without having to route through a 3rd party who's new EUA is now longer then the constitution!
Only by having a personal node/server can one truly control who sees what. There are times when you want to share with the world that you "ate a really good cookie" or something trivial that has no impact on you, your employer, your church, your neighbors etc. Sometimes your want to share pictures of a personal nature like your kids and only want a select few people access. In the world of Facebook they have access to all your data and can do as they please with it, which is fine since we all ( users of FB that is ) signed off on it. As most of you who know me understood that I am really a supporter of projects like these. Maybe if enough people use this ( if it becomes real, come on 4 college kids with now $120K I would be on a road trip forget the programming ) . Then like other projects it will make an impact. Sure it will have to interact with FB and Twitter etc. but slowly people may be sucked in to the private side. Anything to get rid of those EUA's I for one am sick and tired of signing all my rights away to communicate to some Windoze college buddy. It's all about the EUA's baby! Support simple clean straight forward EUA's I really do wish diaspora succeeds, don't think they can, but one can always hope On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > On Friday 14 May 2010, Sean Phelan wrote: > > What I found intriguing here was that donors were willing to chip > > in $130,000 to fund this, all in small-ish chunks. > > > > The value of this would be undeniable - if it is able to interface > > with facebook and linkedin, and run locally on someone's windows > > PC, it can change the world one user at a time. > > Hold it -- think about this. If that was done, it would DEFEAT the > entire point of the project, because it wouldn't fix ANY privacy > issues, since the data would be copied to the services that have the > privacy issues. :-/ So interaction with other services is > specifically a problem, unless there is a mechanism to control which > specific pieces of data can be shared with specific outside services. > > -- Chris > > -- > > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jun 2 - Android > Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie > Aug 4 - Samba >
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