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Ask HN: Open Social Network -- is now the time?
Perchance a group decided to launch a fully open -- per EFF standards, etc. -- social network. That was fully transparent and the data is yours. Maybe Creative Commons licensed?
Would you and could you see a market for it? Or is the sheer size of Facebook/Twitter too much?
FWIW, I am mulling the idea.
- cmelbye 16y agoI wouldn't want the things I upload to a social network to be creative commons licensed; I'd want all of the rights to remain in my possession. If an open social network is to be made, I don't think it should be the Wikipedia model where you relinquish rights to everything you do on the site. (If you were referring to licensing the actual code as Creative Commons, don't. Creative Commons recommends GNU GPL: http://creativecommons.org/software http://creativecommons.org/software)
- lukeqsee 16y agoI was meaning maybe as in it's their rights to license it anyway they please and retain full rights to their data. For instance, if they wanted to, they could upload an album of pictures as Creative Commons, or if they wanted retain full copyright. My point is, it's your data, you can do whatsoever you wish with it, including delete it all.
- lukeqsee 16y agoAs to code licensing, that will most likely be GPL or MIT, if I actually get that far.
- iamdave 16y agoI'm seeing this topic come up more and more frequently, but here's my two cents: The average user doesn't care about Creative Commons licensing, or GPL. The average user cares about the following interaction: LogIn->Read Status Updates->Talk to Friends->Make Status Update->Upload pictures Where average user being 80% of the FB userbase who log on everyday and remain completely oblivious to what's happening with Facebook, The EFF, the FTC and most recently, Zynga. They don't know these things, so they don't care. I say that to say this: if someone plans to build the next social network, build it with the users in mind. Don't try to build a platform with some Utopian framework in mind, build what works, and keep it simple. If you do this, you'll win.
- lukeqsee 16y agoAbsolutely. I like your picture of the common interactions, it really boils it down to a kernel of core functions.
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