Re:My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
by shipstain on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:23PM
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Opera browser had a feature at one point where you could basically have it as a server and browser. And if we all had transparent addressing on the network you could do that. I have the ability to host at home, but I'm not too keen about having my personal address on the Internet. I know that's an oxymoron, but I'd rather have someone attacking a cloud node than my personal network. And I still value my anonymity in places.
Re:My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
by adrianpike on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:14PM
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Is that not just a blog?
Re:My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
by cyberdelica on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:17PM
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Before people abused the term "social network" to include all manner of things, including forums such as Reddit and Hacker News, using Twitter was referred to as "micro blogging".
It's just really annoying to do that right now and the solutions that attempt to make it easy and slick aren't quite there.
This type of thing could be made more popular with normal people if it's easy enough since popular features which "break" the business models of companies like Facebook become popular (e.g. filtering of news feed that under the users direct control or lossless storage of photos).
I think most people would be happier owning the hardware than renting an online service.