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[shevek]

In a continued attempt to reorganize my electronic life a little, I have started uplodaing my more useful projects to https://github.com/shevekRead more... )

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[valkyriekaren]

I find that using Social Fixer (formerly Better Facebook) and being very vigilant about my privacy settings when using Facebook helps with a lot of the more irritating problems.

[rjw1]

obviously the answer is social networking via commit messages to github

[hirez]

That's an interesting idea...

[rhialto]

Not if you're afraid to commit yourself...

[hirez]

[FX: Sad trombone]

[swaldman]

I fear there is a sad conflict - that the only way for a social network of that sort to really fulfill its potential is to be near-ubiquitous, and the only way to attain near-ubiquity (is that a word?) is to be free to the user, which of course means that the user is not the customer.

Dreamwidth is a great example of user-as-customer, but this only works because it is entirely user-funded[1], and hence there's no way it could attain critical mass in the FB sense (not that it offers that kind of service, and not that the owners have expressed any desire to grow that much)

[1] there are many free-riders with free accounts, but the only income comes from paid accounts

[runningraindog]

I use facebook, but now under a completely fictional name, and 99.9 of the data on that is fake. I'm not sure I'm bothered about the (terrible) photos.