Twitter is blackout just now. I forever echo a universal architecture on peer-to-peer service, but most importantly, rewarding people's sharing. Some cryptocurrency can be applied, and a good story for fund raising.
With the launch of micro-payment-friendly currencies like Musicoin, rewarding social media stream is much more valid than before. E.g. like, subscribe, even "dislike" can be a transaction. Just my 2 cents here, :) [image: Inline image 1] On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Richard Brooks <r...@g.clemson.edu> wrote: > On the other hand, why are they using gmail? > > Our university outsourced email to Google. They > software up to date, handle the security, provide > convenient cloud access (I personally dislike > their GUIs), etc. For our university, this decision > probably did make our email traffic more secure > as well. > > I am not wild about the decision our university > made, but for most users using Gmail is probably > the more reasonable and secure choice. Not the > choice that I would make for myself. Being spied > on bothers me. > > But, if you want to have the broad base of users > move elsewhere, you need to address the clear > advantages that Gmail provides. > > Political, social, and economics arguments will not > convince most people. > > On 02/07/2017 07:06 AM, Andrés Pacheco wrote: > > Signore Camozzo hit the nail on the head, twice. So then I have to draw > the proper conclusion... > > > > 1. We need concerted action to set non-proprietary communication > standards at the application level, much like the TCP-IP Protocols did for > the lower layer(s) > > > > 2. This action HAS to be POLITICAL, since it's not just a matter of > devising technical standards, but to have them ADOPTED by the majority. We > need the 75% of his email correspondents to not use proprietary email > platforms (and so forth and so on, and including me and this email itself!) > > > > Ergo, it is at best naive trying to separate "Technology" from > "Politics:" all Technology is Political, and ignoring this only rubber > stamps the technology of the proprietary powers that be. > > > > Not by chance it's Technology companies at the top of the "most valuable > company of the world" food chain: Google and Apple. If that's not a > political statement, then what is? Where is "the swamp?" > > > > Regards | Saludos, > > > > Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > > <a...@acm.org> > > > >> On Feb 7, 2017, at 5:34 AM, Alberto Cammozzo <ac+li...@zeromx.net> > wrote: > >> > >> So far so good, but what is it all for? ~75% of my email correspondents > >> use Gmail ... > >> You cant decentralize alone... > >> We need to fix this quickly or the information revolution will be lost > >> and archived as an annex of the industrial revolution. > > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/m > ailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change > password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. >
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