Re: What we need in a next-gen social network

> Ah I see, so the user controls *what* data they put there, but not *where*
> they put it.  I'd still perhaps like to see slightly more in the way of
> options for the user before I would describe it as "self determined
> storage".

I see, I'll have to write this up a bit more, but here's how it's envisioned:

Although it's a p2p network, it has a "grouping model" whereby the are
circles of trust in which one publishes.  So, for example, you might
have a group called "public-fedsocweb", and you type a message and
publish it to this group.  It stays within that group, but like
everything on the net, as soon as you put it out there, you can only
try to control use.  (A group "owner" might control who can come in
and what goes out of the group, but otherwise, you have to trust your
group.)  Hence, a big part of the pangaia project is to partner with
Lessig's Creative Commons, so that all content automatically is
protected with an implicit license.

The idea of "protected dark nets" is an idea that is not in line with
transforming and fixing society.   I think this is part of the reason
that nothing has moved forward in this domain.  Everyone is worried
about the NSA, spying, whatever, but the real issues are that (in the
U.S.) the law is already written to protect you.  People just need to
stop giving away their country.

-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington

Received on Monday, 25 November 2013 23:16:07 UTC