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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by shmerl on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:41PM (#10132303)
It's a social failure, not a technical one. There are decentralized social networks, but people are stuck in FB with various excuses despite constantly complaining about privacy and other problems.
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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by glandium on Thursday August 27, 2015 @09:23PM (#10133202)
There are decentralized social networks, but how many of them could actually scale to the size of FB?
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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by shmerl on Friday August 28, 2015 @01:35PM (#10136786)
Good question, since I don't think it was tested ;) With full decentralization they should be able to scale, but theory should be tested by practice.
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