Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year
by nradov on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:11PM
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The vast majority of Facebook users don't want to install and maintain a home server. A distributed social network will never take off if it requires users to purchase another dedicated piece of hardware.
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Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year
by losteric on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:48PM
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That's the point: They don't have to!
If you have protocols and software that lets someone run a social OS on their personal hardware and connected to the global network, then the walls have been broken. Any 3rd party can integrate or offer hosting.
You could also take the rabbit hole of battery improvements leading to running this on mobile devices or sending data through a distributed p2p network instead of personal HW. None of those are orthogonal to the proposal.
Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year
by tboughen on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:34PM
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Make it run on as a part of a distributed cloud computing service on a device that consumers are paid to install and keep. Maybe its a radiator/secondary water heater too. The payment is for reduced datacentre cooling expense.