I’ve been thinking about somethings for a while and maybe i’m just paranoid or naive but here it is:
It is know to everyone that big players such as google and facebook run most of social media. Let alone the Russian and Chinese clones like yandex/vk. This always ends up with us being profiled and targeted by advertising companies. This may not be life threatening but it’s certainly discomforting.
What if we as a collective made our own clones. Self maintained by groups of developers with a passion for freedom. This actually getting any transaction might just be a pipe dream. But I wager that elixir/erlang + phoenix is up to the challenge. At a minimum it would be a great way for some of us to organize and do some fun projects. Perhaps we can eventually set up donations and really get something going. I’m willing to pay for a github org (maybe clone that as well eventually) to get us started.
That being said I apologize if any of that seems ridiculous. Ultimately it seems like a good way to connect and learn from more experienced developers. Also could be a great way to research application structure as a community.
The idea sounds interesting, but I think if you’re genuinely interested in seeing it through, you should probably look into decentralized technologies like WebRTC… Maybe blockchain?
I think a viable solution wouldn’t involve disperse efforts, rather a collaborative one. If let’s encrypt solved for us SSL certificates, I don’t see why we won’t eventually end up in a world where all data is decentralized as well.
I’m not talking about decentralization. I do know what WebRTC is, definitely not what i’m going for. If you could please point out what i said that led you to think i was talking about decentralization that would be great so i could clear that up for other readers. My intentions are mostly about getting a group of people together who are down to recreate many of the common apps to spite ads or to just learn and have fun. Sorry if the post came off more guerilla than it is. Thanks for the feedback. @Mazyod
Edit: accidentally didn’t reply directly to you so i tagged you.
Use Tor browser bundle https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en to browse the internet, it’s yet to be cracked so unless you download something or explicitly allow pages to do what they shouldn’t, you’re safe and anonymous.
I also mix these by using different browsers with different logged in identities to do different things so that big brother knows few separate parts of myself except for the ones I want to keep private
With these tools I just don’t feel like there is much missing in terms of privacy for us geekier types if we want it, I also support the Tor guys.
Well ideally all of the code would be open and we’d welcome all developers/designers. Not trying to start a company. I don’t really see much of whats built being used but maybe. I would like it to be more of a learning/research platform with the flexibility to grow into anything. Although, your commentary leads me to believe i have more to consider than i thought. Thank you.
Oh, when you said “made our own clones”, I thought you mean each one creates a clone on their own for some reason. I guess that’s where I misunderstood and said that the efforts shouldn’t be dispersed.
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