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Don't use networks that don't share their code. Don't use networks that hold your data and don't give you raw access to it. Share directly with your friends ins
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
Don't use networks that don't share their code. Don't use networks that hold your data and don't give you raw access to it. Share directly with your friends instead of a large corporation.
Edit: Instead of downmods, please post reasons why you should use networks run with secret codes and which suck your data into their proprietary databases.
- itistoday2 11y agoHN is known for its inability to downvote properly. Gave you an upvote. :)
- jsprogrammer 11y agoThanks. I know :) Unfortunately, others have since come and bumped the comment back down.
- krapp 11y agoI didn't downvote you, but I'm not aware of any "network" (by which I assume you mean website or application) that matches the requirements you set. Open source websites simply don't exist - as it's impossible to actually validate that the code running on a server matches whatever source code a company might distribute, and every site and application attempts to limit or control access to your data in some way. Hacker News itself explicitly doesn't share their fork of the Arc forums, and don't allow raw access to your data.
- itistoday2 11y agoThere are plenty of networks that fit this requirement! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10408968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10408968
- krapp 11y agoFair enough, but the entire web doesn't, which makes jsprogrammer's imperative practically impossible if taken at face value, unless one wants to avoid most of modern technological society altogether.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoNo, the entire web doesn't. One can still reject secret code and proprietary databases while still accepting that they exist. One can even still use them.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoI'm not sure I really need much code running on a server that I don't control. I could just share my data directly with those people I want to, instead of handing it off to FB to catalog and exploit.
- sroerick 11y agoGNU Social is Open Source and federated. Your criticism is still valid, obviously there is no way to validate that a GNU Social instance is not running modified code. But the federation itself mitigates this to some extent. If you don't trust one instance, you can always fire up your own.