[Freedombox-discuss] objectives
On 6/8/11 2:17 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> We want to provide a way for people to share with others narrowly or
> broadly a set of thoughts and media objects hosted on infrastructure
> they own themselves and thus have ultimate control over, as an
> attractive alternative to such sharing via popular existing services
> that provide little control.
+1 - To me, this is a good base to build from and can have a really
broad impact. Personally, I think the success of centralized services
like Twitter and Facebook are failures for advocates of a free and open
web, and something like this could help address that failure.
> We want to provide a way for people to communicate with each other
> privately, minimizing their dependence on service providers, and
> hopefully providing some resiliency in the face of service outages.
Though important, this feels like a secondary goal to me. It can be made
easier if we already have something to address the first goal. There are
other projects already working on anonymized, encrypted, mesh-based
networking - and I suspect something like a freedombox could ride on top
of those rather than focus on a solution of its own.
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