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What I want: 1. GP quote: "Domain names shouldn't be any more difficult to buy or use than phone numbers." 2. Your quote: "federated social network of some so
by _carbyau_ 4y ago
What I want:
1. GP quote: "Domain names shouldn't be any more difficult to buy or use than phone numbers."
2. Your quote: "federated social network of some sort on old android hardware."
Put 1 and 2 together.
The only reason Facebook exists is as a middleman between people trying to pass messages to each other.
If people could easily find each other and run trusted non-proprietary software:
A. there'd be no ads
B. all comms are direct so government agencies couldn't simply compel access from a single source
- anderspitman 4y agoThe tricky part is people have to be willing to pay for the plumbing in this case. I think that paradigm shift can take place, but we have to show them why it's worth it first, which is difficult due to network effects.
- _carbyau_ 4y agoGoogle could setup a domain and simply provide people freely with "[usersPublicKey].domain" subdomains updated by users with a dynamic dns client. Even if this were a google special DNS service not part of the global DNS this could work. Google could also then provide a messaging app to use this service but if some other open source app were to become the defacto and make facebook irrelevant that is still a big win for google. Advertising $$ with one less big competitor. If Google marketed this correctly then they could be seen as a champion of privacy too.