I've been thinking about the problems of the...

👽 Paul Webb I've been thinking about the problems of the current popular social networks. A lot. They have too much power IMO and some of them do sketchy things at the expense of their users, like sell their data to the highest bidder.

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Mark Dain Do you think federated networks can ever be easy enough for the average person to set up and use? That seems like the only solution; we run the servers and keep control over our data

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👽 Paul Webb That's probably THE major, if not only, hurdle. The onboarding process is key. For Socii, I don't want to deal with password management either. I've been using passwordless.net for my current SaaS app and I absolutely love it. None of my future SaaS products will utilize passwords again and I believe they are a hurdle as well. It just encourages poor decisions, especially since so many services want our attention. Anyhoo, this was just a brain dump, there needs to be a LOT more thought put into this. I just thought of a network that does onboarding quite well: Slack. They also have a passwordless login (kinda).

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