[Liverpool] Diaspora

[Adrian McEwen]

That's true, anyone who's driven into Liverpool will be able to tell you 
that "The future is Knowsley"... ;-)

Adrian.

On 25/07/12 16:41, Andrew Bates wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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:
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>>         > 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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