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The sad thing is all of the technology essentially already exists in some form or another - it's just that no one put it all together in an easy-to-configure bo
by csandreasen 12y ago
The sad thing is all of the technology essentially already exists in some form or another - it's just that no one put it all together in an easy-to-configure box with a web interface. RSS for updates, chat over XMPP, messaging with SMTP+TLS+PGP. At this point it seems like most of the tools for the backend are done and the rest is would just involving plugging them together, putting a nice interface on top and acquiring the user base (I know - understatement of the year).
- CalRobert 12y agoThere is movement in this area - see sandstorm, owncloud, disapora, etc. Slap it all in an Odroid and you have control of your data again. But people won't pay for it.
- marineboudeau 12y agoI would pay for a service that respects my privacy and doesn't filter content out. When I first heard of Ello, I thought, maybe this is it. Something else needs to be built, with a beautiful interface so we get everyone off facebook. I want to help.
- CalRobert 12y agoI tend to agree, but really nobody will respect your privacy but yourself, which is why this should be on your own hardware (or at least on a VPS). A small box under my couch hosts my site, cloud storage (owncloud), and if I could get away from it the RSS feed that basically is facebook, and it's quite nice. It was too hard to set up, though, which is why sandstorm looks great.
- pyre 12y agoThe people most likely to be early adopters of such a platform would distrust a solution hosted by a 3rd party. Why? Because if you don't control the system, it can still be used to spy on you. Even a decentralized system with Wordpress-like companies that are federated are not immune.