<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Daniel Pocock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@pocock.pro" target="_blank">daniel@pocock.pro</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><br>
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On 28/04/16 05:04, Martin Klapetek wrote:<br></span><div><div><br>
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> I think you're kinda missing a point here. My friends may very well<br>
> get over me not being on their network, but why would I, as an ordinary<br>
> user, want to switch to something where I won't have my friends? What<br>
> would be the point of using a network and/or a client where I would be alone<br>
> when the _main_ point of a social/IM network is to connect people?<br>
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</div></div>Leadership?<br>
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> For that matter, I actually did join Diaspora and convinced the grand<br>
> total of 2 friends to join. They stuck around for about 4 days, then never<br>
> logged in again "because nobody else would join and so it was boring".<br>
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</span>There was a time when neither Facebook or Diaspora or any of these<br>
things existed. Are you arguing that everybody had a boring life then?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No. Are you arguing that outdated software should stay outdated because</div><div>there was no software like it 20 years ago?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Get a motorbike. Learn to ski. Visit Australia[1]. Please don't tell<br>
me life is boring without facebook though.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sigh. So when a user asks me "Can I chat on Facebook with Telepathy?"</div><div>you're saying I need tell them "No, but get a motorbike. Learn to ski.</div><div>Visit Australia instead". Seriously? I'm sorry but then you clearly don't</div><div>understand the userbase.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>
> For that matter, I actually do use XMPP and I have one single friend-friend<br>
> online on that network.<br>
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</span>You can add me and double your friends<br>
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> Now just why would ordinary users want to deprive themselves of<br>
> all their 350 facebook friends and go sit in the corner by themselves,<br>
> no matter how much better we tell them that corner chair is?<br>
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</span>Go try a new motorbike and then ask "why would 350 of my friends waste<br>
time on facebook when they could do this?"<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You're either trolling at this point or just don't understand the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Tell you what, if you ever find yourself in Toronto, please email me</div><div>and we'll just go in the streets, asking random people these questions</div><div>about their IM usage.</div><div><br></div><div>You might get surprised, because yes, crushing majority of facebook</div><div>users would rather stay connected with 350 friends on facebook than</div><div>be alone on a motorbike forever. You need to ask the ordinary users,</div><div>not your IT friends circle.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>
> WIth Telepathy, you can allow people to sit on a better chair _and_<br>
> still remain in the friends circle. And that's, imho, what the project<br>
> needs; support what people want and require. Otherwise it's not<br>
> too relevant. Not for ordinary users anyway, who don't live in our<br>
> world of ideals.<br>
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</span>I agree that sometimes it is easier to help migrate people slowly, not<br>
everybody wants to just go cold turkey on facebook. The principle of<br>
software freedom implies that people should be free to implement<br>
proprietary connection managers for Telepathy although strategically I<br>
prefer to put my time into alternatives.<br>
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> Speaking of which, as a KDE Telepathy maintainer, I do see quite a decline<br>
> in our userbase. One of the reasons I get from users is "does not support<br>
> $protocol", where $protocol is often Skype, WhatsApp or Facebook. And<br>
> no, it really doesn't matter to them that they can have calls via XMPP, they<br>
> want their Skype contacts cause Skype is The Thing...<br>
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</span>Is the size of your userbase the best guide to success?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's not really about success, it's about being relevant. If you don't</div><div>offer features that users expect these days, users will go elsewhere.</div><div>It's as simple as that. That's like the first thing any product manager</div><div>would tell you. You want to stay relevant in 2017? Support your users.</div><div><br></div><div>But first, understand your users.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Even if it is, collaborating with other communities on this issue of<br>
communications freedom may be a way to reverse that trend in the long term.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, after years and years of the Linux desktop I'll remain skeptical.</div><div>Noble idea and great goal, by all means, but it just won't happen. Even</div><div>such a massive company as Google tried pushing with XMPP, yet they</div><div>ditched it in the end. Why?</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I do take your comments seriously, I've been working on some<br>
documentation about how to address issues like this strategically and I<br>
hope to work some of that into my talk on Saturday at MiniDebConf Vienna<br>
/ Linuxwochen.at - will anybody else from this list be there?<br>
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1. <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36136635" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36136635</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good luck with that (honestly)!</div></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer</span></div>
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