[Liverpool] Diaspora

[Andrew Bates]

sorry, but I just had a hearty lol at "Widnes is the future"
On 25 Jul 2012 16:38, "Daniel Hartley" <D.R.T.Hartley at liverpool.ac.uk>
wrote:

>  Seems like Widnes then must be the future.
>
> For what its worth, I'm already on Libertree. The problem as I see it is
> that its not very compatible with stuff, so rather than socially connected
> you have a sense of being othered and placing yourself amongst likeminded
> souls but who aren't connected to those more 'ordinary'..
>
>
> On 25/07/12 16:16, Simon Johnson wrote:
>
>
>  > In that case I don't understand your previous email.  What was the
>> "problem" that "geeks" solved for you in the late 90s?
>>
>
>  I'm sorry, reading my e-mail back it is ambiguous:
>
>  > For me, geeks already solved this problem in the late 90s.
>
>  What I'm saying is that the solution to this problem is already a solved
> problem. You can do this today with open technologies with previously
> created protocols.
>
>  My friends and I actually ran this set-up during the early 00s. We all
> had our own blogs with RSS and that's how we did things in Widnes. My site
> still exists (it's just never hit! :) )
>
>  Then Facebook delivered an application that had a much better fit and
> finish and everyone went there. Me included, eventually.
>
>  Even though the 00s stuff wasn't as good a user it experience, it did
> fundamentally work and is more free than tying yourself to a particular
> provider. Even the free solutions like Diaspora.
>
>
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