Shameless crosspost from the Flickr forums FlickrCentral discussion
Why move to another social data silo where censorship can happen again? It is time to think about decentralized alternatives to Flickr & Co. While the blogosphere shows that it is possible, we can also do it with photo sharing.
Check out the open source project Atomique. In the moment it is a rather rough prototype, but with the help of others, it can become a viable alternative to Flickr. It uses RSS and Trackback to allow photo sharing in groups without a centralized database.
This is not against Flickr. Once these or similar protocols and standards for open photo sharing are established hosted photo communities (like Flickr) are welcome to implement those, too. This way we can interact with each other no matter which community or software we choose.
If you are interested in Atomique check out the demo sites of Andrea and Lisa and if you feel adventurous install the alpha version. If you are also knowledgable in PHP check out the current SVN version and join the mailing list.
Update: As the forum post was closed by Flickr staff i reposted it in the FlickrCentral group.
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