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"our battle is not lost, but that we can control the use of our data, [...] that the privacy laws that protect us are obeyed." Privacy, privacy. We've actually
by cloudyo 7y ago
"our battle is not lost, but that we can control the use of our data, [...] that the privacy laws that protect us are obeyed."
Privacy, privacy. We've actually developed a self-hosted private cloud solution as a substitute to Dropbox for exactly these reasons. Basically a private Dropbox at home (no complicated installation and no server needed)
We're currently in beta, could interest a few in this thread! https://www.duple.io/en/ https://www.duple.io/en/
The point is to have a product that works just like a Dropbox, as simple and straightforward, but that is actually private with no one interfering, playing, accessing or reading your data.
- phkahler 7y agoThere's more to do than that. We need decentralized replacement for social media And our own email servers for starters. This should all come in one box like a wifi access point or modem.
- buboard 7y agoWe have always had email servers. You can set up one today. What we need is to to convince more technical people to use the internet the way it was designed for. And to find ways for these people to make money, because the monopolized internet of today makes that unattainable.
- rhizome 7y agoMaybe something to make would be an addition to mail servers that chat-ifies group emails.
- buboard 7y agoall you need is an X-header. I also liked the expires header but it didnt catch on
- jimktrains2 7y agoChatifies in what way?
- rhizome 7y agoGroup iMessage = CC list, cc list becomes messaging group. I suppose one way this could play out would be simply to add an email submission API for text messaging app(s), but it's an incomplete idea so far. :)
- jimktrains2 7y agoI'm still not sure what you mean. Are you simply talking about an email client that looks like a text messaging program?
- ahje 7y agoI like that idea; An email client that looks and behaves like the regular messaging apps in iOS/Android.
- rhizome 7y agoThat's doable. The image in my mind was the reverse: a chat program that displays email threads. Interactions in chat become mailing list replies emailed out, and replies to the CC list are displayed in the chat channel.
- maze-le 7y agoBeen there, done that... It is a waste of time and effort if you can't convince other people to join your services. I have operated a jabber server for quite some time (2008ish - 2012). Mostly for me and some friends to organize lan parties and such. I told other people about it but after a week of interest, no one seriously used it, since everyone was already using other services to communicate -- also using a XMPP client seemed to be to much to ask for the non-techies. As time goes on our communications moved towards facebook and teamspeak. And after dropping out of the local gaming scene I stopped operating it altogether -- if I am the only one using a comms-infrastructure its kinda moot, even if it's a federated system. I had some contacts outside of the gaming-bubble but by the time no one seemed to have used it anymore.
- buboard 7y agoit really is an issue of network-lock-in though. facebook is already bloated, discord will become as well. they try hard not to rot but they will
- cloudyo 7y agoAgreed. We also need to make out of the box private tools that anyone can use. Step by step!