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OneSocialWeb, Diaspora et all are solving the wrong problem but are getting attention because of the general grumblings about Facebook. The issue causing the mo
by inboulder 16y ago
OneSocialWeb, Diaspora et all are solving the wrong problem but are getting attention because of the general grumblings about Facebook. The issue causing the most Facebook user dissent is privacy. Open protocols do little to address this; having your whole social graph (think embarrassing pics) sitting on any server out of your control, whoever the owner, is the problem.
What is needed is a system that guarantees privacy by storing your social graph is such a way that it cannot be data-mined, sold, leaked, or linked by other websites. One way to do this is to have all data on the server be encrypted where the key only resides on the client side.
OneSocialWeb does nothing to solve the privacy problem.
- moultano 16y agoI'm with you on the "sold, leaked, and linked" bit, but what's the problem with data-mining?
- orblivion 16y agoI think Diaspora may have this one covered: http://www.joindiaspora.com/project.html http://www.joindiaspora.com/project.html "Distributed Encrypted Backups"
- inboulder 16y agoThat's a 'backup', that has nothing to do with all social content on the servers being unreadable to anyone but those in the graph.