FOAF
About: the foaf project
The thrust of this project was (is?) to give people control of their own identity by allowing them to write their own profile which would be available via API to other services. To make this happen people would substantially need to host their own document … but services to do that for them started happening.
I’m trying to ascertain the status of this project.
Asking somebody who should know on Facebook
inprocess research out loud ….
{ seeAlso foaf, search foaf, “My Foaf”, google foaf } ← an embedded quad
here is a mentograph of my foaf document, which is no longer hosted anywhere ...

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Truly disturbing and creepy. Gonna need another Privacy option on the personal profile for this one right?
I got involved with the project from it’s original inception … and have kind of followed and tested it since … but haven’t looked at its progress for a while.
This way of doing things simply hands your entire identity over to those who can change it, or pay to have it changed, and then you are locked out until you can plead your case if you ever can. It’s the ultimate giving away of your identity and power to “the system”.
a response from facebook already …
this thread is closed



What did I say a day or two ago? That now is the right timing for the existing system to fall apart and Trump may play key part in that?““European diplomats are constantly asking about Trump's rise with disbelief and, now, growing panic," said a senior NATO official, speaking on condition of anonymity.”
Well stay tuned and “you heard it here first”

Don’t worry though. People on the LOA and other similar leading edges are posed and vibrationally ready to step in and take the wheel at exactly the moment the vehicle starts to head over the cliff.




Sorry, there are many things you can get me on board for … but not stuff like this. You’ll need a different developer to create borg cubes for you.

strange … so very strange

please note the thrust of search decentralized in this foaf project.
For instance, on a related but different issue, could you have predicted the liberties that have been taken away by the national security acts back in the 70’s? It would have been unthinkable that such could happen in America with our constitution at that time. But now it has, and those like Trump publicly say they would implement much more. And whatever the gov can do, anyone with money can do too.
The more a person has an established identity as a fact, then the more they have to loose and the more others have as leverage. And when that identity is established online in such a hard wired manner, then everything you are is tied to it. Banks and many agencies will start using it defacto. It will become the ultimate material world power over who you are, and what you will be allowed to do.
That entities will fight each other trying to control and restrict each other’s freedom is a predicament that is not going to go away. But to use that fear to justify a person asserting their own idenentity and being their authentic self is cutting off our nose to spite our face, or to use a common meme of the day used in this context: throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Eolution here is on our side … humanity is progressing to greater and greater personal freedom. That the other force is also working is kind of a matter of which side you want to stand on. Are you afraid of central governments taking away your ability to be yourself? Me not! Give me liberty or give me death!
But that does not mean that I want to participate in creating a situation like this. I don’t really see any big advantage in it other than allowing people to be more lazy. I want to create things that wake people up and get them thinking an doing on their own and actively participating in the creation of their own reality. Things that let people be lazy with the details of their own identity don’t do that. Those kinds of things tend to be a slip and slide for average people to get trapped in boxes doing the will of others and then waking up someday and wondering where their life went.
for example:
you have setup the profile here by a developer (and maybe even latter a wizzard) establishing the assertions that go into a person’s personal profile. that is supporting the proposition that a person can be lazy with the details of their own identity.
Personally i would rather see a “+” gadget on the profile where a person could add whatever pairs to her identity that she wishes. I want to totally control my identity … i do not want to be lazy about it … i want to say maybe something like
{ old blogspot profile : Bozo Faust } ← a true embedded quad
and when i go over there and click edit this is the kind of abilities that i get …

We can always tell the nature of where we are choosing to go too. When focus is difficult, it is telling us something about the nature of where we are going. It is always our choice.

That asserting one’s authentic identity draws attacks and RWG and disintegration … well well well … me thinks that is what we make not happen just with the very force of our own beings cooperatively …. or not … your choice.


maybe go rubb your demons in the active Facebook dialogue with people who are actually working on it.
me, i don’t think you really know what this is all about.
But one can always smell such things … this has that smell.
i still think that FOAF has not taken off … notwistanding that others on facebook may disagree. Rather the centeralizing forces of Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft have build the social web we have today and are corralling people into their domains. That is what has been happening since i started this project back in 2004. Me, i think that is the evil … not the other path of decentralizing and allowing people to establish their own identity and assert their own being as they create it.
Really, we don’t need this. It is not hard do things right now. It would only be a slight bit easier with something like FOAF, but that slight bit funneling into one centralized identity system is all that is needed to woo average people to their doom … like the pied piper of the cloud.
But your are right … the fact that the big players all want to do their own thing works directly against that language developing.
Btw, i am not lobbying for adopting the FOAF vocabulary … to me it seem a bit nerdy. Thing is, however, whatever we evolve to can almost certainly be translated into those words.
Well once you have a standard way of storing data, even if it is not FOAF, it will inevitably lead to a standard place to store everyone's data. The fact that we have several standards helps prevent centralization.
It's not just random that these things could have been done a long time ago but still are not. It is part of what is keeping the blance until people can eveolve beyond the need for central borg-like control. It is so easy to do something like FOAF … if it was something that was of real value to humanity, it would have been done long ago. When something obvious and easy doesn't get done … it's a good indicator to look beyond the short range issues and see what the larger picture paints.
Not sure what your saying.
But I don’t know all the rules the guru uses.

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