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Quote: [...] Perhaps that's biggest flaw with how App.net was presented thus far. Perhaps if Dalton had promised one or more of the following... * The p
by shazow 14y ago
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[...] Perhaps that's biggest flaw with how App.net was presented thus far.
Perhaps if Dalton had promised one or more of the following...
* The primary codebase will be open source
* A light weight client will be open source
* The infrastructure will follow at least one federated standard (oStatus,
Webfinger, Salmon, Activity Streams)
* App.net will federate / push / syndicate data to Diaspora, Status.net, etc...
* Each paid user of App.net can sponsor friends (5, 10, 25, 50, etc...) to
use the service for free
* If you donate Dalton will personally hand deliver to your doorstep 1
flying unicorn ninja who has been raised on grass fed organic bacon
+1. Those things would push me over the edge to contribute $50 or more. Even without the unicorn ninja thing.
I don't want to pay for another "platform" that someone will be struggling to raise funding to replace in a few years. I want to pay for technology. And I want to bring my friends with me.
- brennannovak 14y agoRead Dalton's response http://daltoncaldwell.com/a-response-to-brennan-novak http://daltoncaldwell.com/a-response-to-brennan-novak the only thing missing is the free user invites and open source codebase, however someone has already made an iOS app to the platform https://github.com/sneakyness/AppApp https://github.com/sneakyness/AppApp
- shazow 14y agoThe "only thing missing" is everything on that list except the unicorn and Webfinger.
- jmathai 14y agoThe free user invites are cheap. Not sure why they wouldn't do that. Open sourcing the code base is a much larger leap and if they're reluctant to do that then I'm reluctant to trust them. Not because everyone should open source technology product but they're essentially saying we should trust them to not do what Twitter did. Business model alone doesn't cut it for me. I've always felt that not open sourcing goes against most of Dalton's arguments with App.net. I also realize open sourcing may kill the project under it's own weight. It's a tough call but I really wish they would do it :).