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Re:Openbook social network by onyva on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @07:08AM (#17548787)
I like it that there are attempts to change the status quo and not accept Facebook in our lives as a fact, and push back against the monetization of personal information. But shouldn’t this be backed up by an organization with some trackrecord in the domain of user's digital rights, free and open standards? EFF, FSF... join existing umbrella projects, even if not leveraging existing code... https://www.gnu.org/software/social...? Like someone else said here already, today everybody can build a social network.

Btw they don’t seem to even own openbook.org ...

Re:Openbook social network by laurent123456 on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @07:25AM (#17548855)
It's a for-profit company so I doubt the EFF, etc. would want to back them. They might be open now, but as they grow and more and more investors own the company there's no reason to think they'll be any better than Facebook.
Re:Openbook social network by rement on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:03PM (#17550632)
Take reddit for example. They used to release there code to the open but that is no longer true.