<p dir="ltr">Exactly what do you mean by 'grow virally' it's all very well saying that but on practise it's actually incredibly difficult to do deliberately with any measure of success. I don't mean to appear rude but in my day job I have to spec projects for marketeers and alarm bells start to ring if they say they want to create something viral.</p>

<p dir="ltr">/my two pence</p>
<p dir="ltr">Matt H </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 Oct 2012 05:07, "Melvin Carvalho" <<a href="mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com">melvincarvalho@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 October 2012 03:25, Sandy Harris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sandyinchina@gmail.com" target="_blank">sandyinchina@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div>On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Sandy Harris <<a href="mailto:sandyinchina@gmail.com" target="_blank">sandyinchina@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Bennett Haselton is a well-known activist, founder of the<br>
> anti-censorship Peacefire organisation.<br>
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacefire" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacefire</a><br>
> <a href="http://peacefire.org" target="_blank">http://peacefire.org</a><br>
><br>
> He recently made a long Slashdot post on the future<br>
> of social networking, in particular distributed social<br>
> networking<br>
> <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/06/1428210/bring-on-the-decentralized-social-networking" target="_blank">http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/06/1428210/bring-on-the-decentralized-social-networking</a><br>


><br>
> Freedombox is not discussed there. Probably it should be.<br>
> Anyone here care to add an insightful comment?<br>
<br>
</div>There is now a follow-up post, Bennett answering various objections<br>
raised in the previous discussion, and much new discussion.<br>
<a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/10/05/1215249/decentralized-social-networking-why-it-could-work" target="_blank">http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/10/05/1215249/decentralized-social-networking-why-it-could-work</a><br>

</blockquote><div><br>As time goes on the functionality that a walled garden can offer you will reach a ceiling, for them to remain profitable.<br><br>Free software can offer unlimited functionality in the long term.  Not to mention privacy, which it's shown at least 1 in 4 people feel strongly about.<br>

<br>Just need a strategy to grow the network effect.  Grow virally perhaps?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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