Dignity 0.1
Below is a version 0.1 ecosystem map of providers of four things: source code, communities, technical specifications and products that you can use right now. All are about promoting dignity–”the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect”–of individuals. In place of dignity I could have used other words like autonomy, independence, re-decentralization, personal sovereignty, etc. Anything to do with today’s status quo web of centralized, websites and services is out of scope. My personal bias towards user-managed identity and personal data ownership/control is also noted.
Some terminology:
- Cloud-Free (P2P): Minimal or no dependency on cloud-based services
- Federated Cloud: Multiple independently hosted servers/services interconnected using common protocols
- Hostable: Can be self-hosted or hosted by a 3rd party provider of your choosing
- $: Paid service
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This is a great map! Where do you see the big difference between the red and the green? For example, pump.io and Diaspora are very far away from each other in this map, and I’m not quite seeing that distance.
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paul Reply:
September 11th, 2014 at 6:18 pm
Red are deployed services, actual hardware boxes, etc. –things you can use right away. The green things are source code that requires a technical person to install on some host machine.
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Comment by Johannes Ernst — September 11, 2014 @ 6:13 pm
I see. But a bunch of green ones also exist as hosted services, and a bunch of the red ones also exist as downloadable source code.
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Comment by Johannes Ernst — September 11, 2014 @ 6:21 pm