On 2014-09-26 08:38, Vasilis Kostakis wrote:
An interesting discussion in the Air-List on Ello, an apparently alternative platform to Facebook:
very apparent, indeed. Here are a few links to pages already explaining why Ello is pointless from several points of view, plus my own proposal from last year on the same topic: https://ello.co/waxpancake/post/oy73kFfDdhOPh8Jv9z9pFA http://fatbodypolitics.tumblr.com/post/98306272036/goodbye-ello-privacy-safe... https://ello.co/wtf/post/privacy https://www.facebook.com/dave.winer.12/posts/281609012046511 and my own comment in the facebook discussion above: DISCLAIMER: last year I started a fundraiser for the proposal I'll mention in a few lines. It didn't go well, which is OK as I had and do have other sources of income, and in any case is an idea that everybody else can try to implement independently, and is welcome to do so. Really. This said: any alternative to facebook must (besides being open in the sense Dave explains) first of all be really turn-key-usable by non-geeks. This excludes status.net and similar stuff, at least in the way they are packaged now. Ditto for pretty much everything usually mentioned in discourses like this, from arkOS to Diaspora. Last year I proposed one way to solve this problem first, which I called percloud: http://per-cloud.com Marco -- http://mfioretti.com