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Somebody needs to come up with a universal self-hosting plan that automatically captures everything I create on to a box where I have total ownership. I'd pay f

Somebody needs to come up with a universal self-hosting plan that automatically captures everything I create on to a box where I have total ownership. I'd pay for that. So if I reply to a friend on FB, it captures the thread including my reply. If I tweet, it captures that. My email would be a separate folder. And so forth. Heck even lifelogging would go there. In this fashion the things I create in my life would be under my control, at least to a certain degree. Computers are an extension of our minds, and we deserve to own and control our output in one place, even if we choose to share lots of things in various forums.

michaelbuddy 14y ago
interesting you want a box with total control but your 2 examples are using social networking with a history of increasingly locking out 3rd party tools. with that said you can download your facebook and twitter history. I have for facebook and the static html output isn't that bad. could be worse anyway.
wfn 14y ago
Have you considered (for the time being) moving to e.g. Tent (https://tent.io/ https://tent.io/) and/or Diaspora (https://joindiaspora.com/ https://joindiaspora.com/)? Of course the whole trouble is migrating your current implementation-dependant social circle (e.g. facebook friends), but I've seen people tweet their last messages along the lines of "I'm not staying in twitter for reasons X,Y; moving to Z (join me if you'd like [to follow me])"; my (very limited) exposure to these cases would seem to show that it might just work (to an extent / YMMV) for (at least) folks on twitter with significant amounts of followers. In any case, I like Tent as they are developing / have developed a generic distributed social networking protocol (with some sample implementations etc.) [/old news]
icebraining 14y ago
That's the goal of the Locker Project: http://lockerproject.org/ http://lockerproject.org/ It seems it has stalled, though :(

michaelbuddy 14y ago

interesting you want a box with total control but your 2 examples are using social networking with a history of increasingly locking out 3rd party tools. with that said you can download your facebook and twitter history. I have for facebook and the static html output isn't that bad. could be worse anyway.

wfn 14y ago

Have you considered (for the time being) moving to e.g. Tent (https://tent.io/ https://tent.io/) and/or Diaspora (https://joindiaspora.com/ https://joindiaspora.com/)? Of course the whole trouble is migrating your current implementation-dependant social circle (e.g. facebook friends), but I've seen people tweet their last messages along the lines of "I'm not staying in twitter for reasons X,Y; moving to Z (join me if you'd like [to follow me])"; my (very limited) exposure to these cases would seem to show that it might just work (to an extent / YMMV) for (at least) folks on twitter with significant amounts of followers. In any case, I like Tent as they are developing / have developed a generic distributed social networking protocol (with some sample implementations etc.) [/old news]

icebraining 14y ago

That's the goal of the Locker Project: http://lockerproject.org/ http://lockerproject.org/ It seems it has stalled, though :(