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I had a similar realisation. What's the product in a social network? It's you.
Appreciate the realisation but this really is repeated ad nauseum and is not an original thought in the slightest
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Well said. Kay's misunderstanding is that it could have been any different. He thinks that you can just design something nice from whole cloth and people will use it. That's why his designs aren't deployed. I've been looking at projects like OOVM and going back in history to Self and SmallTalk, and there's a reason that those things aren't deployed. Don't get me wrong -- they're certainly influential and valuable. Bu…
>Another analogy I use is complaining about the human body. Like "who designed this thing there there trachea and esophagus are so close together?!? What an idiot!!!" Or "why are all these people mentally ill and otherwise non-functional members of society? Who designed this crap?" Okay, so what's wrong with discussing the limitations of the human body and the ways to improve it then? Yes, the web evolved instead of…
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This is why I use Fastmail, and encrypt my Google Drive data. It isn't any more secure as far as I can tell, but I'm tired of 2-3 companies holding all my easily accessible data in one place. Especially when they are openly using that data for advertising. These days I'll always take a paid service over a "free" one where I'm the product.
But that requires scrutiny as well. Just because you're paying does not mean that they are not profiting off of your data.
Ultimately I'd love to host everything myself. But, at present, I don't have the technical knowledge to trust myself to secure everything.
On top of that, on an even more emotional level, the principle of myself being the product doesn't sit right with me.
This goes to show how hard winning Turing award is. One would have expected someone who invented the most useful invention of the 20th century to have won this award long time ago. Maybe I am just overvaluing www because of the impact it had on people's lives. EDITED: 20th century, not 19th.
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I don't see what would make basic facebook history hard to move around. Facebook of course already offers a "Download a copy of your Facebook data" function. Future-facebook could import it, or the most fundamental/basic parts of it, probably -- the problem is not the data itself, but the connections in it to other users, it's not that valuable without it. I suspect there isn't much interest from users in things-tryi…
>I suspect there isn't much interest from users in things-trying-to-be-facebook of importing the data. And the legalities of that. FB did a major legal smackdown on someone trying to do that.