[phoe-krk]

0. How does this compare to Fediverse-based solutions, such as Write.Freely for articles, Pixelfed for graphics, Mastodon or Pleroma or Misskey for microblogging? Do you plan on supporting ActivityPub for federation?

1. What are your funding plans? If you plan on being free, what sort of user data will you be selling to pay for your costs?

2a. You mention on the bottom that Sora is Forever: "We're building Sora because we need a place to showcase our content too. We're bootstrapped and in for the long run." What sort of longevity plans do you have in case your servers/your backups/your company/your team goes under?

2b. Do the users get to own their data and move it elsewhere? Is your software FOSS so that users can run their own instances?

[chrispuska]

0: We're going to support ActivityPub at some point this year. Also monitoring all the other protocols popped up recently.

1: Won't sell any data, ever. Bootstrapped for now, user funded once we scaled up. We might temporary suspend signups at a point to ensure uninterrupted service.

2a: Good callout, will update the site with future plans!

2b: We're actively working on making content exportable, so you'll be able to take all of your stuff. No short term OSS plans, but might consider down the road!

Appreciate the questions!

[lrvick]

> 1: Won't sell any data, ever.

Until someone buys the company, and the new owner sells the data. We have all heard this before.

[scrollaway]

What’s the point of this post? The GP asked if they plan to sell user data, they respond no. Did you want them to just not respond? What?

[lrvick]

I would hope they would respond with how they can -prove- data can never be sold, by having accountable cryptography, etc.

[chrispuska]

At this point, there is not much to e2e encrypt--as most of the time you're posting for the internet to see. With more personal collections coming, we'll introduce encrypted content as well.

Although this has nothing to do with selling users data—will work on our tos to communicate our expressed intents more clearly.

[lrvick]

I assume user produce emails, payment information, potentially other PII, behavioral data, how long each user reads each post, etc that adtech companies will gladly pay for.

If the system were open source, decentralized, and/or if user PII was end to end encrypted then you could prove you literally lack the technical means to collect or sell data.

All data that is valuable and technically able to be sold, will eventually be sold.

[esperent]

> Won't sell any data, ever

Is this clearly stated in the terms and condition, including what happens if you sell the company in the future?

If it's not, then your words are meaningless, sorry.

[phoe-krk]

Thanks for quick answers, all clear now!

[rg111]

What will the pricing look like?

Can you give me a ballpark?