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Hence Dalton Caldwell's "Audacious Proposal" and the birth of App.net. https://join.app.net/ https://join.app.net/
by calvin 14y ago
Hence Dalton Caldwell's "Audacious Proposal" and the birth of App.net.
https://join.app.net/ https://join.app.net/
- state 14y agoI know, I joined.
- streptomycin 14y agoSo we have a walled garden network fucking over its users, and you think the solution is to replace it with another walled garden because its rulers are supposedly more benevolent? That's not very ambitious. Think bigger. StatusNet/Identica is free, open source, and (most importantly) federated.
- 54mf 14y agoA walled garden lets anyone in, but not out. You're thinking of something more along the lines of a gated community.
- streptomycin 14y agoNo, I'm thinking of a walled garden. https://www.google.com/search?q=walled+garden+twitter https://www.google.com/search?q=walled+garden+twitter
- 54mf 14y agoAh, appears we're both correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_garden_(technology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_garden_(technology) "... refers to a carrier or service provider's control over applications, content, and media on platforms..." "More generally ... refers to a closed or exclusive set of information services provided for users"
- encoderer 14y agoNo, i actually think just he's correct. It's OK to be wrong though, so no big deal. Though I do disagree with his sentiment. I think App.Net is a perfectly good alternative to Twitter and every attempt at open, federated services since the original one (eg www) have failed to catch-on.
- protomyth 14y agowww was not the original federated service. E-mail is still around and quite successful.
- unimpressive 14y agoUsenet is dead now, but worked for quite some time.
- protomyth 14y agoI have wondered if an updated version of nntp would have worked.