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it's all fine to be principled and honest, but in the end, freedom matters more. we must win, and if that means getting our hands dirty...
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@coyo that’s all well and good but convincing 500,000,000 people to leave the place where their friends and family hang out
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yes, i know. it'll take a LOT of money, marketing, and heavy usage of the twitter and facebook apis.
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@coyo I doubt that the average social network user has, or wants, the knowledge necessary to jump thr…
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@whistlewright LOL. I just installed Skype for Windows for a family member. 8 steps, counting the installation of the headset and webcam.
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@whistlewright In all honesty, I rarely find any FAIF software or site that requires that much.
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@lnxwalt well true for the most part currently but isn’t the general idea to have everyone on their own server?
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@whistlewright I think it is more that the family / neighborhood tech guy will host it, at least in the near term.
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@whistlewright I think it is better to trust someone you know than some faceless corporate entity.
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people will always be people. FIAF is pretty epic, though, and i think most people can and eventually will embrace #fiaf
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to be fair, most #FAIF software, as a general rule, seems a bit opaque to my family, except for things like firefox, thunderbird, pidgin,..
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.. and a few other packages i've slowly introduced my family to. they love it, they love that i know exactly how to fix everything.
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*#FAIF herpa durp. i'm just durping today. durp.
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i agree, basically, small local or neighborhood servers, people you know. and the federation is supposed to scale really really huge.
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YES. I AGREE *FULLY*. it's so much better to trust people i know (preferably people i have drunk and cuddled with at one point) than ..
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a faceless unreachable corporate entity that you have absolutely no control over whatsoever. where's the safety in that?
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to be perfectly fair, graphical wizard installers like that are usually fine, so long as they are clean and self-documented. KISS applies.
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@coyo The audio and video setup wizard portions might not fit that description.
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i see. yeah, i seem to recall they were less than stupid simple..
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