[liberationtech] Facebook: Building Global Community - What's your response to Mark Zuckerberg?

[Yosem Companys]

I know. I agree.

I have never been thrilled with Steven's selection of Facebook for
pro-democracy groups.

To protect your privacy and security, stay off Facebook.

But, to build movements, create an account on Facebook (or Twitter or any
other dominant centralized social network) and try to get as many people to
join.

One vision we had on Diaspora was to create a HootSuite like app that would
integrate all of your social networking sites on one dashboard and enable
you to decide how public you wanted to be. You wanted to connect with a
friend? You could do it directly from your own server to your friend's own
server without an intermediary. You wanted to advertise something more
broadly on Facebook or Twitter? You could do that too. Unfortunately,
Diaspora never moved away from its pod focus to build a better HootSuite.

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Cristina [efecto99] <efecto99 at riseup.net>
wrote:

> On 17/02/17 17:24, Thomas Delrue wrote:
>
> On February 17, 2017 1:32:46 PM EST, Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org> <clift at e-democracy.org> wrote:
>
> I invite everyone to read and comment on Mark Zuckerberg's important
> "Building Global Community" letter:
>
>      https://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingglobalcommunity
>
> This is a special Facebook Group I've created to connect lots of
> disparate communities for a unified conversation that I will share
> with my contacts at Facebook.
>
> You'll find a link to his letter and posts organized by the five key
> questions Mark asks and posts to share media reports and more:https://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingglobalcommunity/permalink/502366400151315/
>
> Or jump straight to his letter: http://po.st/zuckglobal
>
> Also, while I don't have my first tele meeting with a foundation on
> this until next week, now seems like a good time to share
> E-Democracy's draft proposal for Local Civic Facebook Groups:http://po.st/civicfacebookgroupsgoogledoc
>
> Zuckerberg's letter highlights the absolutely vital role of "engaged
> leaders" creating "meaningful groups." E-Democracy's magic mix is
> supporting YOU - those leaders - in local communities working to
> create local community and civic life Facebook Groups that foster
> inclusive and supportive local online communities that foster civic
> engagement and informed communities. So, if you want to add your city
> to the list of the 22 cities with volunteer interest, email me -clift at e-democracy.org - with "Civic Facebook Groups" in the subject
> line. We drafted most of this proposal in December, so we are ecstatic
> that Facebook's next mission is so well aligned with our scrappy work.
>
> Thanks,
> Steven Clift
> E-Democracy.org
>
> P.S. You can jump in deeper now (we are just getting started):
>
>
> "Facebook guy tells world it needs to use more Facebook or face bad times",  is that roughly the right summary of his 'insights' or am I way off?
>
> --
> Thomas
> (Sent from my mobile device,  please forgive brevity or typos.)
>
> It seems as a joke if wouldn't be posted HERE, on *Liberation tech*
> mailing list: since when Facebook serves to the liberation of people!? I
> must be reading a lot of fake news about Facebook the last....5 years? (and
> i think I'm getting short).
>
> So funny...
>
> My 1st impulse to answer this email was to simply put:
>
> One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
> One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
> In the Land of Mordor   Surveillance where the Shadows lie.
>
> 99
>
>
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