the ethical social network

[judith at movingyouth.eu]

I propose to add that the software must be secure. Any flaw should be
fixed as soon as possible.

> On 27 August 2011 14:15,  <judith at movingyouth.eu> wrote:
>
>> This is the reason why I tried to write down the concept of ethical
>> social
>> network.
>> I. The ethical social network
>> II. How to respect those freedoms?
>
>
> This is important and necessary, but not sufficient. One of the big
> problems with social network software is that it must not only be free
> - it has to actually offer reasonable security to the nontechnical.
>
> Freedom is insufficient - it actually has to be technically good,
> because it'll be used by nontechies out on the hostile Internet.
>
> This is something I'm seeing a lot. People disgruntled with Facebook,
> and newly disgruntled with Google+, are advocating Diaspora. But
> Diaspora is horribly shoddy software deep in its architecture:
>
> http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/09/22/security-lessons-learned-from-the-diaspora-launch/
>
> with no visible security architecture (these are all the same post,
> with three discussions):
>
> http://oda.dreamwidth.org/2828.html
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/102376799902430080799/posts/GHg5nZRHbUA
> https://joindiaspora.com/posts/404422
>
> I would go so far as to say that advocating it to nontechnical users -
> the typical user disgruntled with Facebook or Google - is presently
> the *wrong* thing to do, because they simply don't know enough to
> protect themselves from its problems, and would be exchanging a single
> threatening agent (the large company attempting to monetise their
> click trail) for an unlimited number of threatening agents (every
> griefer on the Internet).
>
>
> - d.
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