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I'd argue that email is already a decentralized social platform and so is XMPP (for instant messaging) and NNTP was (for newsgroup discussions)
by rythie 16y ago
I'd argue that email is already a decentralized social platform and so is XMPP (for instant messaging) and NNTP was (for newsgroup discussions)
- joubert 16y agoIntegration of photo sharing, status updates, messages, chat, and events on FB is so much better.
- rythie 16y agoBut that doesn't mean it the same thing can't be created that's open instead.
- smackfu 16y agoYou could also argue that email and NNTP are failed social platforms, mainly due to spam issues. Newsgroups have been almost entirely replaced by one-off forums like this one, and email requires massive continuing efforts to block spammers.
- rythie 16y agoYou could also argue that the solutions to that are known but not currently widely used. If you were to create an iteration of email where there only people aloud to email you were the people in your address-book, would that not be a bit like Facebook is now. Identifying people can be done via signing messages with GPG so no one could forge the sender. Having everyone sign messages on NNTP would work too since you could whitelist a set of people or alternatively a black list of known bad people. Forums like this are good, but lack the convenience that a NNTP news reader used to have of having all your conversations in one place.
- Qz 16y agoYou could argue that society is a failed platform, mainly due to spam issues...
- fuzzmeister 16y agoUntil a decentralized platform can give me a stream of what all my friends are up to and the ability to see what any individual friend is up to, it won't be anywhere near adequate.