Re: nettime [Fwd] A Spit in the Ocean (or the limits of social network paranoia)

2012-02-17 Thread Morlock Elloi
It's not the economic pressure as much as it's the Clumping Effect: there appears to be a biological predisposition for humans to clump in larger ... clumps. Setting up a separate home mail server, with its own domain, practically unsubpoenable and unspiderable, or home node of a distributed

Re: nettime [Fwd] A Spit in the Ocean (or the limits of social network paranoia)

2012-02-17 Thread John Hopkins
So, what's the real alternative if any? The alternative, I think, is perhaps too difficult to even imagine. The technical problems of building an open, stable, and user-run communication Hei August! I think one of the reasons that the focus on directly 'opposing' a large dominant