On 6/8/11 2:17 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote:
We want to provide a way for people to share with others narrowly or broadly a set of thoughts and media objects hosted on infrastructure they own themselves and thus have ultimate control over, as an attractive alternative to such sharing via popular existing services that provide little control.
+1 - To me, this is a good base to build from and can have a really broad impact. Personally, I think the success of centralized services like Twitter and Facebook are failures for advocates of a free and open web, and something like this could help address that failure.
We want to provide a way for people to communicate with each other privately, minimizing their dependence on service providers, and hopefully providing some resiliency in the face of service outages.
Though important, this feels like a secondary goal to me. It can be made easier if we already have something to address the first goal. There are other projects already working on anonymized, encrypted, mesh-based networking - and I suspect something like a freedombox could ride on top of those rather than focus on a solution of its own.
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