Earlier quoted context omitted.
huh? is that china is just like this? or not?
facebook is blocked in china
but the clone site does the same thing - presumably at the same penetration
On Contact Management
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Re: On Contact Management
#22Yes, I agree with you that the way we manage our contact date is outdated. The problems nowadays are: 1) If you include pseudonyms and literally all user data, you will earn the distrust of millions of users that don't want this data centralized in the databases of one company. (I know it is possible to figure out almost all the interconnections e.g. via IP, Cookies, Location data, your browsing history. But still th…
Yes, maybe contacts should be a protocol.
"The big problem is...how can a protocol like this be made attractive to be used."
I don't know. How did the email protocol become attractive? However that happened, I'm sure glad it's a protocol rather than something that only AOL or Facebook users have.
If you post something on Facebook and tell me about it, I can't see it because I'm not on Facebook. But you can email it to me, and you don't have to say "You're not on Gmail, sorry," and I don't have to say "You're not on Fastmail, sorry."
Re: On Contact Management
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
facebook is blocked in china
but the clone site does the same thing - presumably at the same penetration
Different networks partition the users, and the unnecessary extras "piggyback" on the essential service here -- managing list of contacts. China blocks FB due to the piggyback'd content -- the "keep in touch" part is collateral damage.