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is it ethical for FOSS peeps to encourage peeps to join closed networks like Facebook? Even if it is for a FOSS project
Tuesday, 16-Feb-10 20:46:40 UTC from xmpp- Andy C likes this.
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@thistleweb why don't we encourage open source alternatives, isn't !plaxo open source???
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@kevie I understand peeps who are existing members of Facebook, but getting people to JOIN, to join a project just feels wrong to me
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@thistleweb identi.ca is far better than twitter 1. all !linux /open source minded users 2.A heck of a lot less spam 3.most users are human
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@kevie 3. is a good one.
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@schwarzproductions oh yeah, had a twitter account (now deleted) and used to get about 30 posts from companies/spammers a day minimum
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@thistleweb also facebook is kinda pointless, theres nothing you can't do on fb that you can't do using !identica+blogs
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@robconnolly I don't use any FB, MySpace etc I have no interest in what they do so I have no idea if there's a FOSS alternative
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@kevie I still have my twitter account, and it is handy sometimes. But I'm pretty picky on whom I follow
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@thistleweb There isn't. All I use fb for is posting the occasional notice and receiving replies/events from my freedom hating friends.
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@thistleweb For example event invites.
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@thistleweb I'd like to see more free services doing one part of the stuff that fb does, based around !identica as the messaging platform.
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@robconnolly You can use lifestreaming to bring your social media together into once place using Storytlr.
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@ddevine it looks like they have closed down though. Also not Open Source.
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@robconnolly They are fixing their website very soon and they are very much open source now! http://code.google.com/p/storytlr !storytlr
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@ddevine Hmmm, that's interesting. I'll have to look into that. Thanks.
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