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Crazy that they turned down a $100M+ offer from Google in their first year.
Hindsight is 20/20. I remember when zuckerberg turned down $1B from yahoo and I couldn’t believe how stupid and greedy he must be to turn that down.
Sadly it did not take off, which on the other hand is comprehensible, having other options such as Facebook and Instagram where most of the friends and connections are.
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It was. Turns out that’s really hard to do.
Especially when you take a bunch of venture capital: https://ar.al/notes/ello-goodbye/ Note that that was written when they had taken $435,000 in VC, and now they're up to $11M: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ello-inc
Cool domain name though
Makes you wonder why smaller family or close-friends type social networks don't work. I guess the value isn't there to build it because it can't sprawl in the same way as other social networks.
Path has been used by my girlfriends family for the past six years as their familial social network. They all just follow each other and because they don't use it for anything else it's a perfect little community for sharing memories. It was hard for them to cope with the fact that it's all getting shut down after six years using it. Makes you wonder why smaller family or close-friends type social networks don't work…
Because they are run by for profit companies, operating in a capitalistic framework.
That is one of the core pillars of free software as envisioned by Stallman - software that can truly serve the needs of the people, because it is not subject to those pressures.
A world where your girlfriend’s family could painlessly deploy their own such service for just a few users and not have to worry about a company shutting it down whenever they feel like it would be wonderful.
Path has been used by my girlfriends family for the past six years as their familial social network. They all just follow each other and because they don't use it for anything else it's a perfect little community for sharing memories. It was hard for them to cope with the fact that it's all getting shut down after six years using it. Makes you wonder why smaller family or close-friends type social networks don't work…
Makes you wonder why smaller family or close-friends type social networks don't work. Because they are run by for profit companies, operating in a capitalistic framework. That is one of the core pillars of free software as envisioned by Stallman - software that can truly serve the needs of the people, because it is not subject to those pressures. A world where your girlfriend’s family could painlessly deploy their ow…
What did they do? Their home page doesn’t give it away and their about page is just the farewell letter linked by the OP.
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Makes you wonder why smaller family or close-friends type social networks don't work. Because they are run by for profit companies, operating in a capitalistic framework. That is one of the core pillars of free software as envisioned by Stallman - software that can truly serve the needs of the people, because it is not subject to those pressures. A world where your girlfriend’s family could painlessly deploy their ow…
Yeah, I'm sure they would be able to deploy the service, have it secure and updated, having apps up to date on their new devices. Or maybe that takes time and effort, and people need to pay their bills.