ma...@wk3.org: > may I cease the occasion to invite everyone to Diaspora* once again? > It's totally Tor-friendly and basically uncensorable.
I wonder at which point making the same advertisment turns into spam. > A bunch of servers/pods (because the list https://podupti.me is behind > CloudFlare (I admit, I am a bit embarassed...)): I wanted to experience "the freedom" a couple of months ago. So I went ahead and made a few accounts, long deleted. If I recall well, only two or three servers have .onion addresses. Both services (or pods) I have tested use plain http for the .onion address. Anyway, it is quite pointless, because once you are in you get a bunch of connections in the regular Internet, including the main server which should have been mirrored on the .onion address. At first I had the vague impression that diaspora is an idiot magnet. Few activity and the regular conspiracy nut slash armchair social supported anarchist crowd. Maybe it is just a matter of taste. I have no idea if nobody cared about me because I identified as male. But anyway, that was the only plus: no harrassment. Later I have told myself that is because of the number of users. Users who are on twitter slash facebook anyway and seem to need the mirroring functions. And the few posts that are not about programming or the revolution set up to start yesterday are like 3-4 months apart. I would have ignored the thread. Usually I filter out this kind of whining. And than: Roman Mamedov: > Speaking of Twitter alternatives, I find GNU social can be made into a really > nice one. Example: https://quitter.se/ Actually at the time, 2015, there are only two alternatives: mainstream or not. The mainstream is where the people are. Meaning Facebook or Twitter. Facebook is a walled garder. Meaning you are either in or out. With twitter, just checking the user's page from time to time is enough to keep you updated without bothering without wasting time jumping through the twitter's flaming hoops of identificating over and over again. Not mainstream means wasting far more time than with the above and meeting the same thousand nutcases who have opened at least one account on every service. #Diaspora A nice promise. The promise was all users have got. And it was a good sale. Over $200k[1]! It is sooo decentralised you can't even migrate an account from one server to another. At least it is working. But the team deserted and it working on the next moneymaking promise. #Status.net It was supposed to be the twitter killer. Twitter without limits. Only that the twitter guys set the drastic limits and still failed a few times. Only a fraction of the twitter trafic with the twitter restrictions in place would most probably kill the status.net. But status.net is already dead. The sole developer has moved to make the facebook killer. Cute. #Pump.io The facebook killer. Or at least that was the promise. Not very well polished. But one is reminded of the sole main developer and limited resources. Probably there are more born dead projects. All with the same thousand of users. One has to love the double standard: facebook wouldn't be here based on one developer. Yet counting the names involved with the necropolis of disfunctional social webs, the developers I far fewer than the preacher and prophets against the scarry mainstream in which they can't seem to fit anyway. So it probably makes sense to get on kickstart and sell the GPLed Pinterest. And the wheel is turning. Less than a generation again Miguel de Icaza was runing the same scam. Give the penultimate Windows experience. That is their trade. I respect that. My issue is with the masses. How can an Outlook 95 clone, written in the days of Outlook 97 become better and more original than an OS X? Take Yahoo Messenger. It started as a lame ICQ clone. In 2005 there was voice support. By 2009 there was webcam support. The so called free world kept feeling good about SIP. Instantbird/Tor Messenger still does not support audio and video. So call it a capitalist white conspiracy because the users have NO choice. Cheers! [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbs348/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
