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I think we are learning, given App.net isn't a closed, centralized system and can't dictate usage terms for users and developers at will.
by look_lookatme 14y ago
I think we are learning, given App.net isn't a closed, centralized system and can't dictate usage terms for users and developers at will.
- TimGebhardt 14y agoBut those contributors... they gave them $50 bucks. It should be whatever they think it should be!
- jmspring 14y agoApp.net is not centralized? Pretty sure it is. That said, Dalton has stated he intends to be more open than twitter/FB.
- brianshaler 14y agoWell then. If Dalton stated it, I'm sure it'll stay that way forever and he'll never change his mind. Let's give him money!
- dasil003 14y agoThere's a huge difference between founding a company on a vision of being a utility for developers and attempting to fulfill all the promise that Twitter had in the early days, versus the actual Twitter where they never really figured out what they were doing and scaled out to require such levels of investment that the grown ups inevitably moved in and started cannibalizing it for cash.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoYes, let's. Because by giving him money on the basis of a promise, he risks losing money (in the form of future subscriptions) by breaking them. On the other hand, to Twitter your value to them is measured in change per year. I'm willing to bet Twitter doesn't break a lot of promises it makes to its true customers, advertisers.
- look_lookatme 14y agoI was being facetious.
- jmspring 14y agoHumor is sometimes lost on the internet. I see app.net as a project/product by someone spurned by closed systems hoping to build a more open and egalitarian system, but it still is centralized. There is a leap of faith to believe that this goodwill will not alter over time (as business needs change, etc.). Ideally, I'd love to see something more in line w/ what Dave Winer has proposed -- decentralized services not controlled by a single entity and the like. However, Diaspora was one such attempt in that arena and did not do well.
- dasil003 14y agoI'm super excited about App.net and pretty much ditching Twitter in favor of App.net, but I'm quite sure everything you said is false.
- look_lookatme 14y agoSorry, I was being facetious.