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Re:We Need More Alternatives to Facebook by simplehuman on Sunday May 21, 2017 @03:29PM (#14388781)
> The tension/problem as I see it is this: we need distributed networks, where people run their own services, and are servers as well as clients, but at the same time a large proportion of people do not or cannot run their own services.

cloudron.io is tackling this very problem. sandstorm was trying to solve this as well but the project is not active anymore.

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Re:We Need More Alternatives to Facebook by rpdillon on Sunday May 21, 2017 @05:06PM (#14389257)
https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm

Looks pretty active.

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Re:We Need More Alternatives to Facebook by kentonv on Sunday May 21, 2017 @05:54PM (#14389455)
It's not as active as it used to be, but yeah, we're still working on it.

See also: https://sandstorm.io/news/

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Re:We Need More Alternatives to Facebook by type0 on Sunday May 21, 2017 @05:15PM (#14389295)
Cloudron is great but how do you get non-nerds over the fear of running VPS?
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