Re: GNU Guile community in google+

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

zx spectrumgomas <address@hidden> skribis:

> the phrase "I urge you to come up with a solution that is not a
> threat to the privacy, freedom, and autonomy of our users." looks very
> good. The problem is that the real world is full of newbies and they
> don't know come up with these solutions (Me here).

I’m not saying that you should implement one, I’m saying that you should
choose and promote one that addresses those concerns.

There’s Status.Net for small messages, and there are free “social
network” kind of things like Diaspora, though I don’t what their current
status is.  There may also be different kinds of tools we haven’t
mentioned, like wikis.

[...]

> It is clear that Guile has a serious problem with  communication in
> social networks, and if someone does not want to see it then it's
> because his eyes are closed.

You seem to amalgamate “social network” and those centralized,
privacy-threatening services.

The phrase “social networks” really describes real-world social
interactions.  There are many tools that can be used to reify social
networks on the net.  Hackers often like email, IRC, and blogs.  I
gather that nowadays people may have different preferences.

But whatever tool they choose, I think they must understand what impact
it has on their freedom and privacy.

Thanks,
Ludo’.