An off-grid social network

Re:An off-grid social network by throaway23 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:58AM (#14051087)

The entire stackexchange and English Wikipedia dumps including all media is less than 90 Gig. Even low end cell phones have men expansion slots to 128 gig. Whatever you plan to do socially maintaining a local copy is not a storage issue. Non of the cloud ppl will tell you that though.

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Re:An off-grid social network by stinkytaco on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:27AM (#14051411)

But I bet Facebook is much larger. If this were to really meet my needs (i.e. people I actually know start using it regularly), I can see this becoming an issue that needs to be solved, especially on mobile. Bitcoin ran into this issue as well, the need for a client to get the whole blockchain. I can see some solutions once cross device identity is done where I get a small amount of the network, perhaps the most recent, then it syncs up with the larger storage on my home PC later.

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Re:An off-grid social network by mr_spothawk on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:41PM (#14054390)

> But I bet Facebook is much larger.

Thank goodness Facebook isn't what I want my social feed to look like... all those GIFs and garbage updates.

Also, I suppose if you're linking out of the SocialApp and into the Web, that most of the content is just "messages".

> then it syncs up with the larger storage on my home PC later.

I can hardly wait for devices that work this way.

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Re:An off-grid social network by stinkytaco on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:54PM (#14055016)

> Thank goodness Facebook isn't what I want my social feed to look like... all those GIFs and garbage updates.

Sure, but I have few enough friends as is. I know literally no one who would use this, as neat as it is. Bootstraping a social network is hard for both developers and users, but once it gets going, storage requirements would rise fast.

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