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"I really like this way of circumventing problems with privacy in social media. Rather than building your own new social media service, it makes much more sense
by mike-cardwell 15y ago
"I really like this way of circumventing problems with privacy in social media. Rather than building your own new social media service, it makes much more sense to inject your own privacy features into anything and everything."
I really dislike this methodology. The complexity and friction it introduces excludes the vast majority of people who don't yet, and maybe never will, realise how they would benefit from it.
We need a distributed social network, which can't be taken down, censored or monitored by any organisation or government, which utilises public key crypto for privacy, and which is at least as easy to use as Facebook. An immensely difficult project to tackle, but one that would change the World.
- markkum 15y agoWe (Meontrust Inc, the provider of Neko.io and Mepin.com) would be happy to provide public key crypto (PKI) for such a service or project. Neko.io authentication, i.e. Mepin, is based on PKI.
- gldalmaso 15y agoYou still have to get past the friction to convince people to move away from Facebook and use that service instead. Instead of focusing on an immensely difficult project, why not focus and a simpler one that will bring to light the privacy issue. Maybe after enough people get sick of posting links to ensure privacy, they'd be more willing to finally let Facebook go in favor of a simpler privacy sensitive service.
- funthree 15y agobe sure to use fountain codes
- yalooze 15y agoDoes Diaspora do this? https://joindiaspora.com/ https://joindiaspora.com/ I think that's there goal, or at least something similar.
- greenyoda 15y agoOnce Facebook hears of this service they'll probably disable linking to it from Facebook, since it takes Facebook users off-site where they can't be fed Facebook's ads. A distributed social network that's not subject to the whims of a single company really seems to be the only way to get control over your privacy.