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Is this a completely arbitrary use of the term "open" or am I missing something? What does it even mean in this context? How does using "open" systems address a
by weego 16y ago
Is this a completely arbitrary use of the term "open" or am I missing something? What does it even mean in this context? How does using "open" systems address any of the concerns they mention. The moment you upload any data to a server that is not your own I don't see how any solution is any different to Facebook because the person with the datastore can do as they please, good or bad.
And a question: is it coincidence that popular products are always heavily controlled by a handful of peoples (at most) vision of their product and not "open" design by committee products?
- robryan 16y agoThe central server would just contain a reference to your data. Your data would remain on your own hosting or a 3rd party of your choosing and updates you post will only be pushed to your friends. That's how I'm getting the general idea.
- swombat 16y agoYeah, that's totally suitable to the 400 million odd users on Facebook who don't even have a clue what a "host" is (other than someone who invites their friends to dinner).
- lallysingh 16y agoNo no, federate it. If you want an open facebook, take design lessons from DNS and mail.
- xenonite 16y agoa so-called "search engine" -- can be decentralized, too :-)
- DennisP 16y agoBut if it's not a single entity controlling the whole thing, then if the entity controlling your data acts badly you can change to a different one. If you're paranoid and knowledgeable you can run your own server. Popular open systems: Email. XMPP. The Web. The Internet.