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  • From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
  • To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] NAFEX on Facebook
  • Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:43:39 -0500

Lawrence, if you want to check out Ello, I have invites. It's in uber
beta stage to and doesn't have many features. Also as far as I can
tell there's not much happening there yet in the organic gardening
permaculture realm... You can also request an invite from the front
page but that may take a while to come back to you.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Andre Pierre <hello@protocol6.com> wrote:
>
>> Sites like Facebook and Google are not *just* convenient tools. They are
>> big corporations that often (usually?) have questionable patterns of
>> behavior.
>> To use them, and to actively encourage others to use them, is to endorse
>> such behaviors, or at best to turn a blind eye to them.
>>
>> For Facebook the list is pretty extensive and in my view damning:
>> https://stallman.org/facebook.html.
>>
>
> I did not realize what FB was up to until I read this news today:
> <>
> Ello’s thinly veiled rebuke to Facebook: ‘Your social network is owned by
> advertisers. Every post you share, every friend you make and every link you
> follow is tracked, recorded and converted into data.’
>
> SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — There has been a lot of chatter on social
> media this week about a new social network called Ello, which is getting
> buzz for its anti-Facebook Inc. stance. But is the start-up, which accepts
> no advertising and does no data mining, ready for prime time?
>
> Ello has apparently been gaining such a huge influx of new users that its
> servers were having problems in the past two days, despite the requirement
> that you need an invitation to join. As Ello tells users who visit its
> simple, clean, black-and-white site: It has a “manifesto.”
>
> “Your social network is owned by advertisers,” reads Ello’s “about” page.
> <https://ello.co/wtf/post/about> “Every post you share, every friend you
> make and every link you follow is tracked, recorded and converted into
> data. Advertisers buy your data so they can show you more ads. You are the
> product that’s bought and sold. ... We believe there is a better way."
>
> <>
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