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Re: [Social-discuss] What I think GNU Social's structure should be
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Jason Self |
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Re: [Social-discuss] What I think GNU Social's structure should be |
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Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:30:09 -0700 (PDT) |
Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote ..
> In all these discussions about what the optimal structure of GNU Social
> would be, my foremost care has been freedom. I don't yet know what a
> fully free network service would look like, but I think that it would
> have to have the following properties:
>
> * Based on only free software (obviously)
> * Federated, so that any user can run their own node if they wish
> * NOT requiring or encouraging software as a service, or SaaS.
> * Users totally control who can see their data.
Social networking isn't SaaS. [1]
The model that Matt Lee presented already meets your criteria, and can be done
with existing (and ubiquitous) tools.
It can be operated in a cheap web hosting environment, as Matt suggested, or on
one of those cheap wall wart servers like Eben Moglen mentioned [2]. Either way
the user is in control of their data.
One thing that I like about Matt's model is that it avoids the issue of what to
do one one of the nodes is offline: If my friend has unplugged their wall wart
server and are transporting it to another location, I'll be able to get their
updates once they come back online again, and their RSS/Atom/whatever feed
becomes available again. The same could be said of thing that I publish.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
[2] http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1338
Re: [Social-discuss] What I think GNU Social's structure should be, Carlo von Loesch, 2010/03/29