On ello from one of their founders: goo.gl/ulkscj I cant count the number of jaded, stuck up, seen-it-all, start-up smart-ass types that told us that we could not do it. You cant compete with Facebook. Do you know how much money those guys have? Advertising is the only way to make money on the Internet. Theres a disturbing subtext to this message, which is the nihilistic assumption that its not worth the effort to try to make something new, because the big guys have already won. In other words: give up kid, life is over, youve lost already. But we do imagine a better world. And we always have to start at the beginning: helpless, with little money and no help. Just a few photographs tacked to a bulletin board that remind us that we are not alone. You cannot create something truly new by competing. Thats the long, dry, empty road to nowhere where know-it-alls spend their lives. Instead, we create naively, acting as if nothing in the world existed before us, and that nothing will continue when once were done. Ello is built to be the network that we ourselves want to use. Thats the spirit that people sense when they join us for first time. Its the reason that Ello works. Theres a lot of love here. Over there, in that other place, theres just a lot of advertising — and the rumble of slow, steady, subtle machinery telling each of us, over and over, that we have no power to change the world.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:02:18 +0000
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