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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 30

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Joscha Bach

    Because we’d only fund orgs that commit to making products that are: * Free/open * Decentralised * Interoperable (As outlined in the Ethical Design Manifesto. The link, again: https://ind.ie/ethical-design ) The goal is not to create a better Google. It’s to not create Googles.https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1001591552609849344 …

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    Joscha Bach @Plinz
    Replying to @aral
    How can you make sure that you are not simply funding businesses that are specializing on permanent rent-seeking? Did you really think through all the incentives? Do you have very good reasons to think your model would have given us a better Google?
    12:33 AM - 30 May 2018
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      2. Bob Mottram‏ @motters May 30
        Replying to @aral

        @Plinz When you look at Google or Facebook from a purely technical perspective they're not actually delivering very much which doesn't already exist in the free world. Mostly they're marketing/media companies who also happen to make websites.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Rafael Calçada‏ @rafael_calcada May 30
        Replying to @motters @aral @Plinz

        They are far ahead of competition in terms of UX and “eliminating friction”. Easier when centralized and non-ethical.

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      4. Bob Mottram‏ @motters May 30
        Replying to @rafael_calcada @aral @Plinz

        Centralized systems are easier to build, but from the user point of view the amount of friction on Facebook is stunning. It's genuinely difficult even to type without the UI dropping characters.

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      5. Rafael Calçada‏ @rafael_calcada May 30
        Replying to @motters @aral @Plinz

        Not disputing the point of UI problems and the general bugs/flaws found on fb, as it will be a ffairly common issue in any platform aiming nearly universal adoption. More in the line that it's way faster and efficient having a centralized (1/2)

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      6. Rafael Calçada‏ @rafael_calcada May 30
        Replying to @rafael_calcada @motters and

        entity with no overview/ethics to create a frictionless(addictive?) experience amoung several platforms. Try not using fb and google for a day and see how much of ur non-related internet experience will decrease. Hint: Lots of forms (2/2)

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