Re: What we need in a next-gen social network from Mark Janssen on 2013-11-25 (public-fedsocweb@w3.org from November 2013)

From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:40:10 -0800
To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
Cc: "public-fedsocweb@w3.org" <public-fedsocweb@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAMjeLr8Rt1sXx267p+9xZFttNO3Y_+oVD9Y=AyPBkJDrM2NQrA@mail.gmail.com>

> Addressing a few of the ideas.  "Self determined data storage" -- this seems
> to be a place things are not done well.

Diaspora*?

>  Most social nets claim that you
> 'own your own data' but in reality you must store it in the place (or one of
> the places) that they demand.  A truly federated social web would let users
> store data where *they* choose.  To date we have almost not a single
> solution to this.

Are you willing to help make it happen?  Because the solutions have
been in waiting.

-- 
MarkJ
pangaia.sourceforge.net
Tacoma, Washington

Received on Monday, 25 November 2013 19:44:05 UTC