Tim Berners-Lee made a social network or something

[deputc26]

Gives you control of your data, Much better than Ello but same problem of not so many users. ... I'm almost to the point of caring about privacy/data mining/whatever... Surprised this didn't get more press. http://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...’s-Private-Communication-Network#.VEKOS91HaK0
www.mewe.com

 

[mmntech]

Checking it out. Cool that it allows you to integrate your Facebook and Twitter feeds for one stop shopping.

 

[deputc26]

I wish share with facebook stayed on by default after it first gets turned on.

 

[lxskllr]

It's endorsed by Ragnar Lodbrok

:^P

Centralized services are bad. They have one failure point, and one place to collect data. It may be better than facebook, but that's a bar a sloth could jump over. A better system is hosted on the user's own equipment, and connected p2p. That's the way the internet was designed, and the direction people need to move towards.

 

[deputc26]

I agree p2p would be better from a data security/network robustness standpoint but you'd lose all the convenience of the cloud, I don't see the average Justin Bieber fan going with it.