Re:An off-grid social network
by stinkytaco on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:27AM
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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
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> 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.
Re:An off-grid social network
by stinkytaco on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:54PM
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> 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.