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Anything that replaces Facebook will have to be significantly better in at least one major way that matters to people, and not just nerds. But that's definitely
by TillE 13y ago
Anything that replaces Facebook will have to be significantly better in at least one major way that matters to people, and not just nerds. But that's definitely an achievable goal.
In the meantime, I'd really like to see a greater focus on encryption of data. For example, think of the possibilities if we had full PKI support built into the browser, such that private messages could actually be private.
- onan_barbarian 13y agoCorrect. The "significantly better", for better or worse, is likely to be "allows you to share content with your friends that you aren't really allowed to by law". This is probably the only single thing that a federated network can offer that would appeal to non-geeks, at least at first. One might hope that people might "come for the piracy/porn, stay for the free speech".
- b1daly 13y agoThe problem is that Facebook, like the www, succeeds because it is not a private platform, it is mostly public, and it has arrived near ubiquity. This is a feature, not a bug, as they say. It seems to me that encryption is totally incompatible with these two aspects. Unless I'm missing something...