[HacktionLab] Facebook exodus & where are people going

[Mark G]

my 2p, 

On secure comms

have a look at keybase.io, it provides end to end secure communication,
not linked to a sim card, will also run on desktops (native) and
provides for encrypted file sharing, team/P2P  chat and encrypted git
repos. You dont have to link it to any social media profiles, but it
does help for identification purposes.  Dont lose your last device, as
you wont be able to reclaim your old accounts information if you lose
all your devices. 

On FB replacements

if the current news has any impact it will fracture the market for a
little while until another large corporate takes over.  Reach is key and
only an organisation with deep pockets can find the marketing to
generate the reach.  Sad, but true.

Mark



On 26/03/18 23:33, nmd wrote:
> Genuinely P2P systems do get round the server cost problem, and
> peoples' habituation to installing apps on smartphones means there is
> an opening to a system that works based round something you have to
> install..
>
> Plenty of other technical problems I'm sure
>
> On 26 March 2018 23:03:17 BST, Sam UK <sam at bristolwireless.net> wrote:
>
>     It's unclear to me how any service can scale to ubiquity within the current client/server model without a revenue stream. Servers, power and server admin all cost real money.
>
>     I don't know what the answer is (clearly) but just making a prettier FOSS web app doesn't seem to be the way out of this.
>
>     I'm hoping something like https://www.maidsafe.net <https://www.maidsafe.net/> will disrupt the way we think of web infrastructure, then it might be possible to build ubiquitous privacy respecting apps.
>
>     2p 
>
>
>
> -- 
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> HacktionLab mailing list
> HacktionLab at lists.aktivix.org
> https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/hacktionlab

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/hacktionlab/attachments/20180327/415c339d/attachment.html>