Re:Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit
by datavirtue on Thursday October 26, 2017 @02:23PM
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Twitter, like FaceBook, should be an open, distributed platform. They are too valuable to remain under the control of a person or small group of people. They are communities and their value slides, and danger to society increases, when they are under centralized control.
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Re:Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit
by throwaway0255 on Thursday October 26, 2017 @02:34PM
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How do you propose we identify companies that fit that criteria, and take ownership and control of them away from the people who created them?
And remember, your proposal can't be a greater danger to society than the problem you're trying to fix, or that would defeat the purpose.
Re:Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit
by mi100hael on Thursday October 26, 2017 @05:53PM
(#15563419)
Yay, Socialism!
Re:Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit
by willitpamp573 on Thursday October 26, 2017 @03:08PM
(#15562024)
Who is gonna pay to host the open distributed platform? Surely not the users
Re:Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit
by bigphishy on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:01PM
(#15565053)
I don't have any figures, let's just 5 servers running containerized environments, with a couple of decent uplinks, it is feasible to handle bandwidth of a million users for a few thousand a month.
With a million users, it's feasible to support the site with donations... no funding or IPO's needed...
In addition, there are numberous open-source frameworks ( like gnu-social etc. ) that enable a single person to deploy the code onto the servers.
Re:Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit
by egypturnash on Thursday October 26, 2017 @11:52PM
(#15565600)
So far Mastodon seems to be doing okay on a mix of "I wanna run a server for me and a few friends" and "I'm running a server, here's the Patreon to help pay for it".