Thinking of moving to MeWe ? This will be of interest!

Thinking of moving to MeWe ? This will be of interest!

Originally shared by Stephan Beal

Perhaps of interest to those evaluating MeWe as a possible new home in a post-G+ world...

MeWe, it turns out, cannot possibly function as anyone's central public online presence platform (i.e., a place where one can point arbitrary people to and say "that's my online home"). A post by Mewe earlier today (which i can't link to because mewe doesn't support inbound links to posts) clarified that their pending addition of "public" pages means "public within mewe", as opposed to "public within the internet".

What follows is copy/pasted from a comment i made in a mewe-side discussion on that topic this evening (Central Euro Time), explaining why mewe cannot possibly change to become the platform i was hoping to find (specifically, a replacement for my One True Online Presence, which is currently G+)... (again, i'd link directly to the discussion if mewe supported such a thing... but if it did, this discussing would even be happening.)

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Think of it this way: here on mewe we can all create posts saying "take a look at this cool post on Twitter, FB, G+, Narnia, whatever", but we can't do the reverse on any of those networks, saying "look at this cool post on mewe".

Mewe can't "fix" (change) that without breaking their privacy-by-design policy. Imagine for a moment that they suddenly offer the ability for me to mark my posts or forums world-visible. Now the comments of every other user in those posts or that forum become visible to the rest of the world, and that's not what they agreed to when they signed up for mewe. There's no way to consolidate that with mewe's wall-ed design and keep privacy-conscious users happy. Simply by making a post world-visible, if i type @Mark Hunt in such a post, that leaks, to the whole world, information which reveals that Mark Hunt uses mewe. Not every user is okay with that, and many certainly signed up with mewe because that doesn't/can't happen.

So... i'll continue to use mewe for the forums (i love the forum features, especially file/image sharing, except that you can't re-use an already-uploaded image in multiple independent posts/comments). i can't, however, use it as my central online presence, because mewe literally can't do that.
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