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1. Andrew (speeddefrost@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2015 23:01:50 UTC Andrew

   • Andrew
   I'm not even referring to voting in general, but the freedom and/or limitations imposed on it. Neither up/down votes should be limited (rather both, if at all), centralization encourages censorship and should be done away with for good as well as moderation (another word for censorship), "categories" (subreddits, subverses, whatever the fuck you want to call them) should be replaced entirely with user-controlled tags, spam prevention should be prioritized via instance authorization (a list of nodes that are allowed to be federated with), and editing/deletion needs to be network-wide (not instance only, which is pathetically broken).
   
   All microblogging and social networking sites are using selectively flawed ideas and should be transformed. Nobody needs 'microblogging', they want socialization, and up/down votes aren't evil -- centralization is.
   • Temporary Marjolein and AndStatus repeated this.
   • AndStatus (andstatus@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Feb-2015 17:19:44 UTC AndStatus

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     • andstatus
     @speeddefrost "Nobody needs 'microblogging', they want socialization"
     Thanks for the reminder.
     For me this is the last drop to cause renaming of "Microblogging system" references in #AndStatus into "Social networking site".
     I think the "site" term sounds simpler and closer to what !andstatus currently lists as "Microblogging systems", than "server", "instance" or "service"?!
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2015 15:45:20 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     • التنينوكس
     @dragnucs ask someone who uses it! I actively avoind it. ;-)
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2015 15:48:05 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     • التنينوكس
     @dragnucs so, no - that's a pity
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2015 20:41:09 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     • simsa0
     @simsa0 no, what people DO with them will be insufficient - they need to know what they CAN do with them (and what not)
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2015 20:54:36 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     • simsa0
     @simsa0 no, many people use only a limited set of functions because they don't know about the others. Thus describing what the CAN do could alert them to what they didn't know yet.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2015 20:55:58 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     • identlud
     @identlud No, my use case is NOT 'communicate with my peers'. My use case is 'microblogging'. Conversation may follow from that, but not necessarily.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2015 21:12:21 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     • identlud
     @identlud to microblog about (i.e., share) my activities, ideas and findings. For others (anyone) to read. (And react to if they want.)
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2015 21:13:33 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     • identlud
     @identlud also blogging (micro or macro) doesn't mean per se that anyone will read it. I do it nevertheless.
   • Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2015 21:22:50 UTC Temporary Marjolein

     • identlud
     @identlud and I do mean *share* - I hate private messages in this context (unless in very rare cases absolutely necessary). I don't look at "Messages" unless someone alerts me there is something for me to read.