On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:57:57 -0700, Jason Self <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Being decentralized and caring about your data and privacy is *not >>> enough on >>> it's own*. You won't just magically switch thereto. >> >> I am, and for those reasons. > > This is a GNU software project, so its reason for being is the freedom of > its users. > > That's enough reason for us to make it, and it will be enough for people > who care about their freedom to use software to adopt it. > > Facebook is educating people about the problems that centralized Web 2.0 > services have for data ownership, privacy and control, and this is being > covered by the mass media and mainstream press. Many people do see this as > a problem, and they are looking for a solution.
Well, obviously all of us on this list agree to that and will use it for those reasons. But getting wide press coverage and thus actually getting also the non-tech savvy people into will actually make it what we use in the future. If it's just us geeks, it's not what I think many of us really want with this. :-) But anyway, that doesn't really change much of what's being done here. Only that, yes, it's a good idea to also think about other sides of the project because without a big base of users it won't actually be usable. It's like Jabber was before when I started using it, I had 3 people I didn't know there, and a friend I seldom talked to. I never used it and continued using MSN for a few years. Then I strongarmed a few of my closest friends into using Jabber, and now I can use it all the time. Of course, Gmail really helped enormously with the Jabber user base. :-) Regards Odin Hørthe Omdal <[email protected]> On vacation in California till august http://velmont.no
