Privacy?
You alone as a member of a social network have to take care of your privacy. Just don’t post what others shouldn’t know.
So this is no crucial point for me when looking for an alternative to Google+. What matters for me is
• powerful filters of the provider and the right tools for group owners to keep trolls, spammers, and sickos away without an unacceptable effort
Google didn’t give us these tools.
They underestimated the role of moderators.
• lots of members actively making a place interesting
I’m not interested in creating time consuming good content which the is only read by a handful lurkers. Content creators also need some motivation. This can be the basis for fruitful discussions and making lots of interesting connections.
I don’t find it useful if members in this community just post links to networks without talking about their pros and cons.
Thanks for reading.
Agreed. Most of the alternatives I've seen suggested lack so many of the features that have made G+ a natural home for photographers - integration with Google Photos (or some other system with virtually unlimited photo storage), excellent display resolution, ease of sharing, etc. I am not interested in going backward to the kinds of networks I used before the Plus came along. And I want the ability to either post broadly to a "public" audience or narrowly to specific interest groups. Nothing I've seen to date does all of that.
ReplyDeletePat Kight Yeah. We’ll miss it. That’s life.
ReplyDeleteIt would be an exciting idea if someone could be convinced to buy G+.
I agree in that everyone have to be accountable for their own publishing habits, and be aware that anything you write anywhere might eventually end up in public.
ReplyDeleteStill, “privacy” to me include everything from platform integrity to company accountability. Honoring applicable legislation, i.eg. GDPR, such as the right to be forgotten should you decide to close your account, the right to take out your data, and to request whatever other data they have on you, such as shadow profiles, knowing that the company will report any data breaches and so on, is also part of “privacy”. And of course it includes things such as knowing that what you post to an individual or in a limited group isn’t also published publicly.
Privacy matters, too. If nothing else, how well a social media lives up to it is an important quality market.
Never put anything online that you can't afford to lose.
ReplyDeletePer Siden Agree but you won’t find what you’re looking for. Even if companies make huge efforts to keep your privacy they will be successfully attacked some day.
ReplyDeleteThomas Unterstenhoefer of course there’s no such thing as flawless security. But companies that at least are making an effort are probably better in other ways too than those that doesn’t even try.
ReplyDeleteAnd there are other aspects to privacy than unintended leaks. For example, if I cancel my account and request the company delete all my content, I expect them to comply. Also, I expect there’ll be policy and measures in place to ensure staff content access isn’t overreaching. If there’s an instant messaging service that claim to use end-to-end encryption I expect it to be true.
I agree trusting privacy policies can be dangerous, and that everyone have to take responsibility for their posts and comments. Privacy certainly isn’t everything, but I believe it’s one of those things to check up before choosing a product or company over another. It is a quality and maturity indicator.
Per Siden If they don’t do what their policies promise they will say “Sorry, it was a bug in our software but we already fixed it.”. You can the believe it or not.
ReplyDeleteThis is my biggest complaint with Pluspora. Currently, they don’t offer any type of community feature set. It’s possible to hack something close via the Aspects feature, but it would involve a lot of extra work.
ReplyDeleteThomas Unterstenhoefer yes, they can. But that doesn’t mean we we can’t compare products and companies at all when it comes to security. There’s their history for example, their credibility in other areas, under which jurisdiction they operate and where they host their servers, whether they’re doing open source, if they have otherwise been audited, and a range of other metrics. It’s not mission impossible to make a reasonable evaluation, at least relative to other alternatives. In many ways security is one of the easier things to evaluate in order to rule out at least the worst percentile of alternatives.
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