-=> Matt Munson wrote to All <=-

 MM> I think we can help sell bbsing if we can say it offers more freedom
 MM> than facebook.

It's a good point, but won't attract a crowd. Diaspora aims to create a 
federated, decentralized social network, and it's sputtered along without a 
lot of buzz. Diaspora was described to me as "instead of a million users on 
a single social network with a single TOS, imagine a million people on a 
million federated social networks determining exactly what they wanted to 
and wanted not to share.

Identi.ca and Jabber make nice federated microblogging and IM environments, 
but without the momentum of a large user base, they're in the shadow of 
centralized platforms.

I thought that HTML5 and Flash telnet clients would help, but people still 
don't want to get over the learning curve of a text interface.

Maybe we need to join with the devil and make a way to federate echoes with 
Facebook pages?  :)




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