Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data...
by enqk on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @03:49PM
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I really have to wonder, why is there no "peer to peer" social network? It seems ideally suited for this type of usage, and this would ensure that data is only in each node rather than on some central server. Does something exist like that already?
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data...
by rmc on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @04:48PM
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why is there no "peer to peer" social network
Probably the closest there is is the blog-o-sphere and/or the internet in general? I can host my photos on a website, and email that to a friend? Someone can subscribe to my RSS feed of my blog, etc.
Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data...
by qznc on Thursday April 19, 2012 @03:33AM
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Depends on what you want a "peer" to be.
A peer being an Free Software server, which anybody can host: Appleseed, Diaspora, Elgg, and many more.
A peer being like a file-sharing application running on each persons computer: XMPP would be a good start, but I don't know any projects, who have built something noteworthy on top. The big problems: Friends must be able to interact with me, while I'm offline. Browser integration for "share buttons".