privacy -> decentralized online services + offline mode
asked 2014-11-22 20:24:51 +0200
Hi, as the tablet and sailfish OS 2.0 is promoted with privacy in mind, I like to suggest some aspects that focus on (re)decentralized online services that are in use / embedded to the OS. Thus, the OS should support a lot more services for sharing / upload / notify / news / ... and contain an open (standards and protocols) and extendible system (plugins / scripts) that is able to reflect the lifecycle of third party APIs. For example youtube.com might be #1 video portal, but users might prefer vimeo.com that's not overwhelmed by ads and tracking. Or let's see some examples for selfhosting online services :
- owncloud - sync and share calendars, files, bookmarks, ...
- bittorrent - sync files via P2P
- Mediagoblin - share images, audio, video, 3D models, ...
- Diaspora / friendica - social networks
- Jabber / XMPP - IM and chat
- Yacy - websearch
- bitcoin - payment
- ...
Also please try to avoid online services in general and support offline applications as good as we can. There are offline apps for wikipedia, openstreetmap and the OS can use e.g. openwifimap for loading wifi locations etc... . This will include esp. the easy (background, fast, non-blocking, ...) updates and external storage of big datasets.
As an alternative to BitTorrentSync you can use syncthing. It's open source and does nearly the same as BTS.
blubdibub ( 2014-11-22 20:28:31 +0200 )editAlso, please improve caldav support. I'm currently using google calendar because of bugs with experimental caldav synchronization.
sigma_ ( 2014-11-22 20:31:19 +0200 )edit@blubdibub What I mean are defaults and the OS integration itself. If you always need an (poor intrated) external app, nobody will like to use that services at the tablet.
dulog ( 2014-11-22 20:41:44 +0200 )editYes, we definitly need better integration with those services, especially the ones like jabber/xmpp and owncloud which one can host on an own server. Right now jabber is not usable mobile due to missing XEP-0198 among others and there is no group chat, file transfer etc.. to bring it on par with things like whatsapp. Also Owncloud Sync works ok for caldav, but no carddav due to a wrongly generated URL when using the general carddav account type. File sync is only possible manually through third Party Apps (Cargo Dock Filemanager)
If Jolla does mean what they say about caring for the users privacy than these services should be feature complete and fully integrated in Sailfish OS by default.
seiichiro0185 ( 2014-11-22 21:41:08 +0200 )edit