Sharing my thoughts over here on this.
Originally shared by DL Keur
Something to think about before locking yourself into alternative social media platforms: Does the ownership have enough financial security and server resources? The unpleasant reality is that it's very expensive to run a platform and, for all the best intentions of an owner organization's desires to provide a usable service, the reality can be complicated by lack of scope and funding.
Originally shared by DL Keur
Something to think about before locking yourself into alternative social media platforms: Does the ownership have enough financial security and server resources? The unpleasant reality is that it's very expensive to run a platform and, for all the best intentions of an owner organization's desires to provide a usable service, the reality can be complicated by lack of scope and funding.
a decentralised p2p platform is not expensive to run.
ReplyDeleteA decentralized pier-to-pier platform isn't expensive to run -- true, and I'm all for that, but most folks around the Plus want Facebook without the bagels, sleaze,, and babies, but with the perks of being able to show-and-tell their stuff while disabling others from showing-and-telling to them. <-- Just my cynicism showing itself. Can you imagine, Dima Pasechnik , Ms. Sally Suburban or Joe Sixpack safely able to participate in a decentralized p2p environment? You can? Yeah, well maybe with enough education, but who is going to force feed them? <--more of my cynicism, sorry.
ReplyDeleteDL Keur you are underestimating --- said people have already been using torrents (by now, and old tech) to exchange pirated CDs and pr0n for many years... :-)
ReplyDeleteDo you really want to trust your social media presence & history to a random guy who pays $25/month for a server, has access to your private data, has no resources or time for DCMAs or stand up for your privacy against the man, and who may lose interest and/or forget to pay the bill on time. Low cost hosts have zero tolerance for late payments and may close/wipe the server within 48 hours..
ReplyDeleteDoug Tyrrell in P2P realm you don't trust anyone blindly, and your data is all on your machine (which is certainly problematic for digital nomads with all their data in various clouds...)
ReplyDeleteDoug Tyrrell I don't. That's why I don't use any service to store anything critical on. Everthing that's critical is on my own server, drives, and storage media. It's also why I'm part of a private intranet and, yes, we run decentralized and p2p. Have for years. "Social media" is just a plaything for me. It's not something for serious work.
ReplyDeleteDima Pasechnik That's true. But it's also true that they ain't got a clue. And, yes, I know I'm totally over the top with my attitude. It's been 'one of those days' around here.
ReplyDeleteDoug Tyrrell Well Google already leaked it and tried to cover it up, facesuck has more leaks than the US government .... I actually think my data is probably as safe on a server run by someone's pet hamster than by the big internet companies
ReplyDeleteAlan Cox Probably safer.
ReplyDeleteThis is really the elephant in the room question, isn't it? Indeed, some people can run their own instance. But that model doesn't connect you to the vast majority who have neither the time, the expertise, the money, or the interest in managing a complex software environment. People like artists, photographers, writers, musicians, scientists, philosophers, sea captains, and so on; people who are really interesting to talk to, but will never run a diaspora node, and who, even more, won't waste their time on a node that someone runs as a hobby.
ReplyDeleteI've idly wondered if a social network could be run in a totally distributed manner; reduced to just an app that communicates with peer apps, with no middlemen whatsoever. All information would be kept in the apps, with no intervening database...
Kent Crispin - what you are describing is very much like USENET. Each node in the USENET network selects which newsgroups it will download articles for, and how long to store them locally. Each article has a unique ID so when someone makes a new post, it gets a unique ID and is offered to upstream and downstream nodes. With a little luck (because no one can force another node to accept an article) the new article will soon spread to all/most nodes in the network.
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