On 23 Mar 2010, at 21:33, Henry Litwhiler wrote:
To me, at least, decentralization is a very important thing, and the GNU
Social project can serve not only as a way of pulling people out of these
über-centralized social networking sites but also as a way of changing the
way the internet works at a fundamental level.
This is even more fundamental if you place your WebId ( http://esw.w3.org/WebID
) on that server. Your identity itself becomes something that you then control.
To put it somewhere else is to make yourself under the tutellage of someone
else. It should only happen in exceptional circumstances.
This is about controlling your identity.
Henry
Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/