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1: I want ACLs meet Web. I want to publish personal stuff to close friends & family, professional stuff to colleagues, and random miscellany to the world, all v
by davi 16y ago
1: I want ACLs meet Web. I want to publish personal stuff to close friends & family, professional stuff to colleagues, and random miscellany to the world, all via the same tool. I want to be able to customize the layout of my content depending on the audience.
2: I want this without my friends and family having to learn about OpenID or having to sign up for a new account somewhere. (I don't know how to do this, I am just saying what I want. Posterous got this part right.)
3: I want to know that the investment I'm making in generating content will last. This means I need to trust that the host of my content is not going to disappear, or get bought and change its behavior radically. Alternatively, it means that I am given the ability to migrate my content to a well-behaved, API-implementing host elsewhere (including, possibly, on my own server).
Nothing I know of addresses this set of wants elegantly. Maybe because monetizing the social graph requires as much transparency from the participants as possible, at least according to current thinking. But I feel that eventually, what 'sharing on the web' means will inevitably evolve to accommodate this set of wants.
If Facebook decided to be less evil they could do ACLs-meet-web pretty easily, since they already have such a huge installed user base. In fact, they may have already done this a long time ago for all I know; back when I canceled my account, they did not have this capability.
- gcr 16y agoYou are describing the Internet. Self-run web sites, blogs, and instant messaging systems: 1. allow you to fine-tune who sees what, 2. do not require extra accounts (save comment systems, etc.), 3. are not tied to any one provider or company and thus will last for a long time.
- davi 16y agoHow do you see the internet providing built-in ACLs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control_list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control_list Even if it did, your assertion is like equating assembly to a high level language. Just because you theoretically can do anything in assembly that you can in a high level language doesn't mean you would want to. I am trying to specify a set of attributes for a non-existent tool that would let me more fluidly publish what I write and create. ---- edit: if anybody reading this would care to explain why I am getting downvoted & the parent is getting upvoted so much, I would appreciate it.
- tbrownaw 16y agoThe internet provides something like ACLs using something similar to a password capability model: I post stuff as "tbrownaw" or "Timothy Brownawell" and anyone can know it's me, but I also have logins to various message boards under pseudonyms, which you can only tie back to me if I tell you.
- davi 16y agoThanks. That is indeed an inverted form of what I was wishing for, and I didn't get the idea from the initial response to my post.
- davi 16y agonote to self (post is too old to edit): apparently Facebook does have a lists capability: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341787 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341787, http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=768 http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=768