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Re:Why I’m sitting at home crying on a Saturday afternoon by dredmorbius on Thursday October 08, 2015 @08:28PM (#10357343)
"The alternative" is almost certain not to be an alternative Web-based service, but a set of protocols allowing for interactions between independent and independently hosted systems.

Diaspora was a valient effort, but sadly, appears quite doomed (I was an early fan and user).

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Re:Why I’m sitting at home crying on a Saturday afternoon by alexschleber on Thursday October 08, 2015 @09:03PM (#10357489)
From everything I've seen/read during the security research phase for my project, trusting in the computational/security integrity of endless P2P nodes is not a road I want to go down.

There really is nothing _a priori_ wrong with the centralized system, PROVIDED said system/operator makes strong Privacy / Data Sovereignity guarantees from the word go.

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Re:Why I’m sitting at home crying on a Saturday afternoon by dredmorbius on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:19AM (#10358136)
Fair point. It's not necesarily the case that you'd see extensively P2P nodes. But again, a distributed protocol based system would allow for local supernodes, competently administered, to exist.

There's also the issue that client nodes, under any model, also require security updates and practices. The universal P2P model really isn't far from that, and certain auto-updating models seem arguably preferable to present offerings.

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