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No, you're not. If you were that would mean you would be interested. If you were interested you would have more to say. You're just trying to imply that I must suggest an alternative before commenting on the poor state of "social networks".
"I'm all ears" is simply a common idiom for asking you to suggest alternatives. Not sure why that upsets you?
I've been thinking about this very thing the past few days! Forgive the rambling, this is the first time I've written any of this down... My idea is to use email as a transport for 'social attachments' that would be read using a custom mail client (it remains to be seen if it should be your regular email client or have it be just your 'social mail' client. But... if using another client as regular email, users would…
email is so complicated. There are probably 3 people in the world who know how to properly run an email server.
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This is what blogging was like, no? Pingbacks created a conversation among posts.
Blogging is about the same as posting in your own "feed" on any social network. See, for example, the indiewebcamp[1] people, who are against "silos", as they call Facebook et al., but are recreating their same functionalities with personal blogs and a new version of Pingbacks called "webmentions". [1]: https://indieweb.org/
The storage requirements are tremendous, though, right? If I want to have access to everything that's been shared with me, I have to store it all. In the case of images, the storage burden can get large quickly.
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And then your laptop gets stolen and everything's gone.
If I understand scuttlebut correctly, your stuff is broadcasted to whoever it might concern and the pubs. If you still have your private key, you should still be able to access whatever is in the ether, right ? You somehow become the recipient of your own messages. Only the thief will also have access to your private key, so the account can be considered compromised.
What percentage of users do you think would be affected by such cases? If it's something over 0.001%, it's a huge problem for a social network.
Sites like Coinbase and Github exist because they re-centralize distributed systems — users don't trust themselves to host their own data securely.
Alternately, if this isn't a problem, why don't users simply host all their own infrastructure for existing tech problems today ?
I'm sure someone capable of living in the Mojave Desert is capable of hosting their own infrastructure - is this network simply for those people, or is it also for journalists, trans people, and HR professionals?
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This is what blogging was like, no? Pingbacks created a conversation among posts.
Blogging is about the same as posting in your own "feed" on any social network. See, for example, the indiewebcamp[1] people, who are against "silos", as they call Facebook et al., but are recreating their same functionalities with personal blogs and a new version of Pingbacks called "webmentions". [1]: https://indieweb.org/
I'd like to see all my friends post updates and photos to blogs where I can subscribe via rss. This would be the best social network for me.
This excites me. I'm probably naive, but I always imagine that one day I'll retire and spend my days trying to work on an open source mesh network (or something similar). I want future generations to live in a world where 'the internet' isn't a thing that authorities can grant/deny. A headless social network is a promising omen of a headless internet.
_THIS_ is very much the spirit of SSB. :)