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Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
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Re: Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am curious why you are suggesting Netflix? The filter bubble created by the recommendation system? It seems like they are relying on original content more and more. Or maybe you mean because of the centralization of it? Is there a decentralized and legal alternative?
http://stallman.org/netflix.html
The meat of this is really anti-DRM and while I agree with that sentiment completely I am failing to see how this relates to the centralization trend or filter bubbles that are the topic of this discussion.
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://stallman.org/netflix.html
The meat of this is really anti-DRM and while I agree with that sentiment completely I am failing to see how this relates to the centralization trend or filter bubbles that are the topic of this discussion.
Are you aware of usable alternatives to Netflix? (I am not). This is the problem I guess...
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
#344Me? I don't use Facebook. I consider Google evil and harmful and avoid them. On my phone I run my own apps, and apps from F-Droid - I don't even register with Google. I have a shit-list of companies I will never work for (Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon and every Government entity anywhere in the world). I browse the net from VM's with specific purposes (one for HN). I use Tor for most browsing, including re…
"I host my own content on my own servers, or on rented VM's (not AWS). I host my personal home-page on a VM ..."
This sounds a lot like my own practices.
There is one pitfall which I find interesting and that is that you cannot host your own phone number in the same way that you host your own email/DNS.
If you own a domain and self-host your DNS and mail, you really are the provider - the requests come to you and you first and you have a good deal of "control" over that resource.
However, unless you actually become a CLEC, you cannot "own" your own phone number and become the "server" of that resource. No matter what your setup, some third party intercepts that requests and hands it to you - you are never first in line with a phone call.
One reason this is interesting is, if you run your own mail server, you can email other local users without generating any network traffic - it's just a local copy operation. This is not the case with VOIP/asterisk/anything - your calls are going over the telco network no matter what (again, unless you are a CLEC).
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
#345Maybe should try on another level alltogether.
Here something from 6y ago. (i even posted it here then but with near-zero attention).
A (personal) system that keeps your own notions (and versions of) and crosslinks them to each another, with translators to/from other persons/entity notions (and subsets - think i/o facades/faces).
Like the tags u put on your images. And how u would explain them to somebody else. And take some of their images (i.e. of same event) with their tags. And tag them yourself. maybe in time.
http://www.svilendobrev.com/rabota/notionery/ http://www.svilendobrev.com/rabota/notionery/1.html
it's rough sketch, may live on top of any p2p technology. Back then noone could be bothered about "why would i put another layer around myself". Now maybe the awareness is better, i don't know. (contacts in profile or that site) have fun
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't really understand this? I've never used AMP directly but I use Ghost which comes packaged with AMP. How does AMP change the domain of your content?
Google uses AMP for caching. When you click on the link, they are serving cached content from their own servers. They say it promotes user experience because it is faster. The average user can hardly tell the difference, and they might never go to your server.
It really depends on what you want to do: disseminate information (with a canonical URL that you control) or shovel users to your server?
In the former case, AMP caches are a reasonable compromise since it's really just a free CDN. In the latter case, that cache is annoying because of how it needs to fit in the design of the contemporary web. See the last paragraph of https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2017/01/13/why-amp-caches-exis... for some ideas on how to improve the platform so the caches wouldn't be necessary for much of AMP.
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
#347Take the like/+1/retweet/etc. buttons off your website.
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
#348Make your website of record your website. Make social media platforms and others (e.g. Google) secondary to that. Don't let Google and Facebook control how you build your website. I am amazed at companies that take their websites and subjugate them to their Facebook page. You may gain social attention but you are handing over control. Never, ever, ever say to contact me go to facebook.com/xxxx or my email address is…
+1 totally correct
Social media works well for announcing stuff on my own web site (new blog articles, new releases of open source projects, new books I have written, etc.)
Hosting long form content of someone else's domain is not playing the game right.
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one said anything about hosting your own email or making your own website. eg. My wife has a small business with an online store hosted on Shopify and her email provider is Gmail. But her website is www.her_domain.com and her email address is @her_domain.com. She can easily switch out her providers and her contact addresses don't change. No real tech knowledge needed except for how to register a domain name and fo…
Registering a domain name may as well be magic to a large portion of the population.
Is it more complicated than buying and owning a car? A house? More complicated than filing your taxes, managing retirement savings, having a wedding, choosing insurance?
Learning the basics of something new, enough to get by, is part of being an adult, even if you won't ever be and have no interest in being an expert.
Re: Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was with you until logins. I'm tired of creating accounts and managing umpteen million passwords.
"I'm tired of creating accounts and managing umpteen million passwords." That's your choice. You can use the same credentials for all accounts you create and manage the entire mass as one. It's a bad practice, I know, but it's still a solution.
> It's a bad practice
That's the understatement of the century.