-=> 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?  :)   
      
      
      
      
   ... Question the heroic approach   
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