Ditching GAFAM
What would it take for us to get away from the 'death star platforms' of GAFAM and grow a cooperative commons infrastructure...?
Poll Created Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:32PM
Which of the following reasons is most likely to convince you to move away from Gmail etc? The alternative service should: Closed Sun 4 Jul 2021 1:04PM
Results
Results | Option | Rank | % of points | Points | Mean | ||
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Never sell your data to anyone else | 1 | 10.3% | 270 | 11.3 | ||
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Be powered by open source software | 2 | 8.5% | 222 | 9.7 | ||
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Be governed as a co-operative | 3 | 8.1% | 213 | 9.3 | ||
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Be easy to set up on your phone and computer | 4 | 7.2% | 189 | 7.6 | ||
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Be as, or more secure than the “free” options | 5 | 7.1% | 187 | 8.1 | ||
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Allow you to cancel, and export your data, at any time | 6 | 7.0% | 185 | 7.4 | ||
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Be available on all devices | 7 | 6.7% | 176 | 7.3 | ||
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Be powered by renewable energy | 8 | 6.6% | 172 | 8.6 | ||
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Use any profit to help grow the commons | 9 | 5.8% | 153 | 6.4 | ||
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Never expose you to advertising | 10 | 5.5% | 145 | 8.5 | ||
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Have great product support | 11 | 4.6% | 120 | 5.5 | ||
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Have an uptime guarantee | 12 | 4.6% | 120 | 5.5 | ||
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Provide Single Sign On (SSO) access to file storage and other collaborative tools | 13 | 4.6% | 120 | 5.7 | ||
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Be expandable - so you can upgrade your storage | 14 | 3.7% | 98 | 4.7 | ||
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Provide a suite comprising calendar plus office tools | 15 | 3.3% | 87 | 6.2 | ||
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Provide collaborative tools such as mind-mapping, whiteboard, etc. | 16 | 3.2% | 83 | 5.9 | ||
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Work seemlessly with Gmail etc (e.g. sending/accepting calendar invites) | 17 | 0.9% | 24 | 12.0 | ||
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Provide a robust migration mechanism from Gmail etc | 18 | 0.5% | 14 | 7.0 | ||
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Search Feature | 19 | 0.5% | 14 | 14.0 | ||
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As cheap as Gmail so all can use it. | 20 | 0.5% | 13 | 13.0 | ||
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Large scale reliable operation with own data center and Internet backbone | 21 | 0.5% | 13 | 13.0 | ||
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Be built as Native Apps | 22 | 0.3% | 7 | 7.0 | ||
Utilize SOLID from Tim-Berners Lee | 23 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | |||
Undecided | 0% | 0 | 0 |
25 of 235 people have participated (10%)
Poll Created Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:46PM
If the Open service also connected to other collaborative tools, which of the following would you use? Closed Wed 30 Jun 2021 1:03PM
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
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Shared docs - for collaboration on Spreadsheets and Word Processing files | 12.8% | 21 | |||
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File storage - for docs and photos etc | 12.2% | 20 | |||
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Audio and video calls | 11.0% | 18 | |||
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Collaborative tools for graphing, mind-/concept-mapping, whiteboarding, etc. | 11.0% | 18 | |||
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Meeting scheduling tools | 9.1% | 15 | |||
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Todo lists - private or shared Kanban-style task boards | 8.5% | 14 | |||
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Calendars - create and share multiple calendars | 7.9% | 13 | |||
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Text chat - in groups or one-to-one | 7.9% | 13 | |||
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Contacts - sync your contacts with phones and other devices | 6.7% | 11 | |||
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Ad hoc polls | 6.7% | 11 | |||
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Ad hoc payment/measurement/acknowledement recording framework | 3.7% | 6 | |||
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Accessibility | 2.4% | 4 | |||
Undecided | 0% | 211 |
24 of 235 people have participated (10%)
Poll Created Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:51PM
How much would you be prepared to pay for 5GB of storage for emails and 10GB of storage for files? Closed Sun 4 Jul 2021 1:04PM
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
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£3/month | 40.0% | 4 | |||
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£5/month | 30.0% | 3 | |||
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€1/month | 20.0% | 2 | |||
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£4/month | 10.0% | 1 | |||
Undecided | 0% | 1 |
10 of 11 people have participated (90%)
Poll Created Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:53PM
How much would you be prepared to pay for 5GB of storage for emails and 20GB of storage for files? Closed Sun 4 Jul 2021 1:04PM
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
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£5/month | 40.0% | 2 | |||
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£7/month | 40.0% | 2 | |||
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£6/month | 20.0% | 1 | |||
£8/month | 0.0% | 0 | ||||
Undecided | 0% | 1 |
5 of 6 people have participated (83%)
Poll Created Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:54PM
How much would you be prepared to pay for 5GB of storage for emails and 30GB of storage for files? Closed Sun 4 Jul 2021 1:04PM
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
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£10/month | 100.0% | 3 | |||
£11/month | 0.0% | 0 | ||||
£12/month | 0.0% | 0 | ||||
£13/month | 0.0% | 0 | ||||
£14/month | 0.0% | 0 | ||||
£15/month | 0.0% | 0 | ||||
Undecided | 0% | 1 |
3 of 4 people have participated (75%)
Michael Linton Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:41PM
10 - Provide Single Sign On (SSO) access to file storage and other collaborative tools | ||
11 - Use any profit to help grow the commons | ||
12 - Be expandable - so you can upgrade your storage | ||
13 - Have an uptime guarantee | ||
14 - Have great product support | ||
15 - Be easy to set up on your phone and computer | ||
16 - Be available on all devices | ||
17 - Be governed as a co-operative | ||
18 - Allow you to cancel, and export your data, at any time | ||
19 - Be as, or more secure than the “free” options | ||
20 - Be powered by open source software | ||
21 - Be powered by renewable energy | ||
22 - Never expose you to advertising | ||
23 - Never sell your data to anyone else |
Subscription / financed by cooperative currencies? Pay it round?
Poll Created Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:57PM
If you were to sign up which size of account do you think you would start at? Closed Sun 4 Jul 2021 1:04PM
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
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5GM email + 10GB files storage | 71.4% | 5 | |||
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5GM email + 30GB files storage | 28.6% | 2 | |||
5GM email + 20GB files storage | 0.0% | 0 | ||||
Undecided | 0% | 1 |
7 of 8 people have participated (87%)
Poll Created Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:59PM
How important do you think it is for an Open email service to connect to file storage and other collaborative tools? Closed Sun 4 Jul 2021 1:04PM
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
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Important | 44.4% | 4 | |||
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Unsure | 22.2% | 2 | |||
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Very important - I wouldn’t sign up without those | 22.2% | 2 | |||
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Not that important | 11.1% | 1 | |||
Not important at all - I would never use those | 0.0% | 0 | ||||
Undecided | 0% | 1 |
9 of 10 people have participated (90%)
Poll Created Sun 27 Jun 2021 2:01PM
Would you be interested in paying for an estimation of your technological carbon footprint to be offset as an additional feature? Closed Sun 4 Jul 2021 2:03PM
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |||
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Yes | 37.5% | 3 | |||
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Maybe - depends on the price | 37.5% | 3 | |||
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No | 25.0% | 2 | |||
Undecided | 0% | 1 |
8 of 9 people have participated (88%)
John Waters Sun 27 Jun 2021 1:41PM
10 - Be as, or more secure than the “free” options | ||
11 - Be powered by renewable energy | ||
12 - Provide Single Sign On (SSO) access to file storage and other collaborative tools | ||
13 - Be powered by open source software | ||
14 - Provide collaborative tools such as mind-mapping, whiteboard, etc. | ||
15 - Provide a suite comprising calendar plus office tools | ||
16 - Allow you to cancel, and export your data, at any time | ||
17 - Never sell your data to anyone else | ||
18 - Use any profit to help grow the commons | ||
19 - Be expandable - so you can upgrade your storage | ||
20 - Have an uptime guarantee | ||
21 - Have great product support | ||
22 - Be easy to set up on your phone and computer | ||
23 - Be available on all devices |
"Never sell your data to anyone else" is ambiguous. Anonymized aggregated data may, if used appropriately, help in the effective design of policy, whereas identifying data enables the targetting of advertising (and worse) turning the user into the product.
What does "Gmail etc" actually mean?
The meaning of "available on all devices" is unclear. A Web service will be available on any device with a browser.