11 October 2010
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What We The People Need
It's 4am and I can't sleep due to feelings of intense frustration :-(
I was watching Eben Moglen's speech that inspired the Diaspora project, and realised anew how simple it would be for us, the open source community, to put together everything we need to create for ourselves complete independence from the oppressive financial forces that are eroding our freedom away every day.
We need to get our knowledge decentralised asap - the net was designed to be a peer-to-peer network in the first place! we need to create a new independent and free virtual community of un-interruptible and un-censorable sharing of knowledge as a foundation. Then within that decentralised environment we need to carry on the development of further independence such as the ability to organise and trade together. The centralised model is not working for us, even sites like Wikipedia which are supposed to be made by the people are just riddled with corporate propaganda and are missing or twisting vitally important information such as cures for cancer.
All the tools exist for what we need already, it just needs the will of the masses to push these ideas into critical mass of usage. For example the Git version control system is inherently peer-to-peer, and has a wiki plug-in. A suite of development tools could be added to Git to make a large development community like GitHub but in a completely peer-to-peer way.
- Diaspora Roadmap and Wishlist on Github
