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Originally shared by Jérémie Tarot
With the announce of G+ service end in a few month: Considering Facebook is a poisonned alternative, as well as any proprietary, commercial personal data hog. Considering the benefits that the Maker, Engineering, etc communities would pull from a common and independant communication platform.
Isn’t it time to envision gathering forces, energies and resources under a common organisation umbrella that would build, promote and maintain such a platform.
Base feature set would be replacement for G+ as well as content syndication (pages, blogs, videos, podcasts) with integrated commenting. Ideally, building on it’s success, the platform would extend to code and project logs hosting, because GitHub dependence is even worth than anything else.
This, of course, would be based on Open Source code. Initial funding could be gathered from a crowdfunding campaign for the benefit of an ad-hoc foundation. A Wikimedia sister for the making, Engineering, fabrication… communities, knowledge and projects.
What do you think? I’m surely dreaming in front of my morning (third) coffee, but doesn’t it all starts like this
Oh you can check out MeWe. I’m already moving my community over there. It’s the best G+ alternative I could find and I looked at a LOT of platforms. In fact, I already started a 3D printer community. I haven’t actually set it up but it’s there. I hope to build a community like this one.
@Kevin_Danger_Powers installed it yesterday to have a look. Far from impressed from what I’ve seen, a little worried about comments I’ve read about what can be found there, and absolutely unwilling to support the burden of migrating to another service unless it’s rooted in Open Source.
Aside from the median user at MeWe being a little nuts, whether it stays open long-term depends entirely on massive user growth that is not guaranteed to happen. So migrating there is a bet on the product offering. If they reach critical mass and pull a few hundred million people off Facebook, then it’ll survive long term… but with only 6 million registered users now and little way of monetizing (since they don’t show ads or sell personally identifiable data) my guess is that they’re going to run out of VC money eventually and shut down.
