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All these attempts are not as easy to use as the dominant network. Friction-free is very hard. Are the masses going to switch purely for privacy preservation?
by synctext 4y ago
All these attempts are not as easy to use as the dominant network.
Friction-free is very hard. Are the masses going to switch purely for privacy preservation?
See our Internet-deployed social network from 13 years ago. Without any server and no gatekeepers. Its fully self-organising. It lacks polish. You simply can not compete against the thousands of engineers which polish the dominant social network. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221015322_A_Gossip-Based_Distributed_Social_Networking_System https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221015322_A_Gossip-...
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoSo twtxt is a text protocol for sharing social media posts which can be shared by hosting a plaintext file. I bring it up because it's extremely close to what the author proposed.
- TuringTest 4y agoIt doesn't look that close; the model of interaction seems to be completely different. twtxt is a command line tool with flat files and no obvious way of linking content, and logseq is an outliner with hierarchical files and bidirectional links created with wiki-like syntax. Someone without advanced knowledge of the command line would not know how to start using twtxt, while using logseq is as simple as any plain text editor.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoTwtxt is more of a sharing standard that can be statically hosted rather than a command line tool: Yarn.social, for instance, is a web app that uses Twtxt format for social microblogging.
- rektide 4y agoWhat do you see about twtxt that seems similar to you? Logseq doesn't have "posts" as such, nor is there a protocol here for sharing. There's nothing graph related in twtxt. It also doesn't integrate with the personal knowledgebase people are already using. I'm not sure why twtxt would come to mind as similar.