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The nut to crack isn't writing the software. That's (in comparison) trivial, it's been done over and over again. The nut to crack is to allow a user to transfe
by mseebach 14y ago
The nut to crack isn't writing the software. That's (in comparison) trivial, it's been done over and over again.
The nut to crack is to allow a user to transfer the network effects he currently has on Facebook to a new network.
- slurgfest 14y agoWhat is the best open alternative currently usable? Do you have a URL? Obviously the problem of porting the data is 100% up to Facebook to allow, which I strongly doubt it will ever do (what is its commercial interest in allowing that?)
- Joeboy 14y ago> What is the best open alternative currently usable? Do you have a URL? The much derided Diaspora (sign up at http://diasp.org http://diasp.org) works perfectly well for Facebook's core functionality, and is fairly pleasant to use.
- mseebach 14y ago"Porting the data" isn't the problem. Porting your friends is. Nobody is on Facebook because they have all their data on there - they are there because their friends are there. The issue of writing the software, even the issue of data export, pales to total insignificance next to the problem of exporting the network effects. I didn't say that many open source implementations exists, just that many implementations exists. Diaspora might be a good candidate for a software stack, but the point is that having some social networking software is utterly pointless if you don't have a way of getting users onto it.