diaspora* catchphrase

I'd (somewhat biased I guess lol) go with:

Diaspora. Social Networking with actual privacy.

;)

Source: https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Custom_splash_page

I'd hate to break the party but I dislike actually the usage of the word "privacy" as one of the key words. Unfortunately I don't think we are quite there yet to use it as the main selling point ;)

A quick analysis on the phrases;

The online social world where you are in control

How does diaspora* give control to users, more than other social networks? The answer of course is you can host your own data. That means approx 0,008666667% of users actually have control. I don't think that is a good selling point ;)

Decentralization. Freedom. Privacy.

Decentralized for sure. Freedom to choose, freedom from large corporations, maybe freedom to switch some day ;) Privacy? How do you define privacy? Better privacy setting defaults maybe, that is something diaspora* does better than Facebook for example. But privacy of data depends again on whether you host your data or not. Most don't so they just trust their podmins. And since a podmin can be anyone, this is not a very strong argument.

Share what you want with whom you want

Actually diaspora* allows sharing with less people so I'd say this is a bad catchphrase ;) And most social networks have limited visibility posting, even though Aspects is a superior implementation of say Facebook lists.

Diaspora. Social Networking with actual privacy.

Again, how do you define privacy? Privacy from advertisers, sure. Privacy as no one will ask for your real name, sure. Privacy due to better default settings, sure. Privacy of data? Not really, still trusting someone - and I'm pretty sure our average podmin will more easier lose or leak your data than Facebook.

Personally, I'd go for either Decentralization. Freedom. Privacy. or Diaspora. Social Networking with actual privacy., if one has to choose from existing ones.

But my point is not to bash diaspora - my point is to say that we should make sure when we talk about catchphrases that we talk with things that we actually do better. Not with words that we can't even back and just use them as selling points.

To me, diaspora* has three main selling points:

Freedom

• Users can choose where they host their data.
• Users are not subject to the whims of large corporations OR local laws.
• Users can call themselves what they damn please.
• Users can talk without fear of cencorship (or find a pod that allows their content if they are into some weird shit no one likes).

Community and openness

• For many people that join the first thing they see is a lot of friendly people welcoming them. One of our strengths is a friendly community that wants to meet new people. Diaspora really works well for people who love communities.
• We are open in governance AND source code. People are asked and can participate. We love contributors.

Non-commercial

• While this isn't actually something that the software enforces, or should enforce, it is a fact of how the network is. It is non-commercial and AFAIK there are no adverts on any pods. Pods can add adverts, but people don't have to use those pods (= freedom).

TL;DR - I'd like to drop the word "privacy" and things like "security" from the main selling points we use since IMHO they are not the main selling points and are more marketing talk than real benefits.

What about;

Real freedom
Loving community
Non-commercial

Plus, we are talking about a social network, i.e, a plateform that main goal is to share informations. So, it's rather the opposite of privacy. The main difference with other SN is d* allows you better who you want to share with.

And this privacy thing also poses the problem of encryption of data. I wonder why the data are still not encrpted in the database ?

And this privacy thing also poses the problem of encryption of data. I wonder why the data are still not encrpted in the database ?

Because diaspora* has never intended to be a super secure communication platform AND because encrypting server side would not help users at all AND encrypting everything client side would just be overkill and insane and make the platform not really usable :P

I disagree on the privacy point: as you said, diaspora* does a lot more than other social network: no tracking or experiment on the users, no real name, no real data (you don't even need an email to use diaspora*, we should make this field optional in the registration process btw), visibility of post limited by default, exif data stripped by default... We can actually talk about privacy.

I agree about security though. Imo the goal of the project is clear: it is a nice tool if you want to share with people without giving the data to a corporation, it is not a tool to protect you from state surveillance, allowing you to share completely anonymously and without trace.

So, privacy, yes, security, no, and it's not a point we want to reach.

What we want to reach though is to allow people to host themselves, so "there is no privacy because actually people don't host themselves" is not a valid point, it is our goal to improve the software to make it easier to install, maintain and update. Don't censor ourselves on this.

Because diaspora* has never intended to be a super secure communication platform AND because encrypting server side would not help users at all AND encrypting everything client side would just be overkill and insane and make the platform not really usable :P

It still causes me problem for conversations. I don't like the idea that my podmin can be able to dump the DB and read my converations. This is a whole.

I disagree on the privacy point: as you said, diaspora* does a lot more than other social network: no tracking or experiment on the users, no real name, no real data (you don’t even need an email to use diaspora*, we should make this field optional in the registration process btw), visibility of post limited by default, exif data stripped by default… We can actually talk about privacy.

This should actually be the operation of any SN to me. This is how Internet work. The fact that other SN do that is an anomaly. And the fact that we don't is not privacy IMHO.

What we want to reach though is to allow people to host themselves, so “there is no privacy because actually people don’t host themselves” is not a valid point, it is our goal to improve the software to make it easier to install, maintain and update. Don’t censor ourselves on this.

Yes, but here is the evidence : this is actually not the case. We shouldn't be presumptuous.

It still causes me problem for conversations. I don’t like the idea that my podmin can be able to dump the DB and read my converations. This is a whole.

Encryption could be done in the browser side - but hey, why not just use an actual secure client that does the job well? ;)

I want to move on this, I need more opinion. Guys, express yourselves!

Encryption could be done in the browser side - but hey, why not just use an actual secure client that does the job well? ;)

Didn't though about this. A browser used to authentificate you would be cool. I think KDE made some work on it with the social destop

I want to move on this, I need more opinion. Guys, express yourselves!

TBH, I don't like any of them. I'd see something more evasive focused on the goal to change the web like "Let's build something together".

Come on, express yourself

That is not bad, thanks Fla ;)

My proposal;

Freedom
Community
No ads

Maybe Fla collect three options, leave one option as none of them (block) and then vote.