With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals

Re:With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals by EGreg on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:02AM (#18716538)

Facebook has no alternative because it takes years to build something halfway decent. A social network today must work across all devices seamlessly, integrating with realtime notifications, user accounts and addressbooks across devices and that’s just for a start.

At https://Qbix.com we have spent our own money on a free open source alternative platform to Facebook.

I think we’re still pretty bad at marketing it. Would appreciate some feedback if you check out the site and watch the video.

It’s far far ahead of Mastodon, Solid, OwnCloud or whatever else is out there. It has full documentation (https://qbix.com/platform and https://qbix.com/platform/guide and https://qbix.com/platform/tutorials) and can be tried out of the box. It has been audited by third party security firms and come out with flying colors.

Here is a laundry list of features: https://qbix.com/features.pdf

But it needs a huge effort to make it as nice and appealing as say stripe.com is for payment integrations. Those guys are amazing.

We recently released version 1.1 on github. We have chatrooms, galleries, events, trips, back end and front end components which all work together like BSD systems all work together. Just slap them on pages, theme it and there u have your own social network. It took us years and nearly $1M in funding. But you can’t see much of that at a glance, or play around with it, yet. That should change in 2019.

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Re:With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals by tootired on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:48PM (#18718151)

Dear EGreg,

PHP? I'll pass.

Don't bother with any arguments that PHP powers huge sites including Facebook and Wordpress. The whole point of this thread, and presumably Qbit's very existence, is that they are not good role models.

If you are trying to be a modern, secure, respectful replacement for Facebook, be modern, secure, and respectful.

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Re:With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals by EGreg on Friday December 21, 2018 @08:18AM (#18733084)

A strange response considering you’re not the only person on the Internet. You didn’t post any alternative, and if you had, it would probably have the 1% of the install base of PHP. Remember that most people hosting this thing aren’t going to be setting up their own VPN and Linux. In fact, even YOU don’t do it, you probably will just use AWS creating MORE centralization in “the cloud”. That’s pretty hypocritical. Meanwhile the LAMP stack or NGinX + PHP stack is widely deployed on the web. And many of the installations have the latest PHP. What is less secure about the latest PHP than your favorite language?

Finally, about being modern and chasing trends. Wordpress is not modern but it powers 1 in every 3 websites. Ghost is modern and is used on 0.1% of websites. Thanks but we’ll pass.

I am not even sure how PHP is disrespectful, so I’ll leave that one alone.

If it makes you feel better, we are also working on an app hosting the whole network from a random computer or a mobile phone on a local network.

[1] https://serverfault.com/questions/922074/list-of-most-popula...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Is-Node-js-killing-PHP

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Re:With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals by pdimitar on Monday December 24, 2018 @06:46PM (#18754938)

Your answer somehow conflates popularity with quality.

PHP has a lot of very well documented problems.

Also, do you have a source when claiming that most PHP installations use more modern versions? I seriously doubt that particular claim is true. Most business people think of IT as a one-time expense. You can still find a ton of 5.0 - 5.3 installations out there. Hell, in my country there are good amount of PHP 4.x websites as well.

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