Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web

Re:Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web by ninetax on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @11:42PM (#4420778)

And even if it is just as easy, or easier, to set up as facebook or twitter, it still might fail because of the user and the egg problem.

As much as I would love to use and have a network like this, until all the people I keep in touch with through facebook use it, I'll still have a facebook.

I wonder if it's plausible, even possible, to have all those p2p benefits (encryption, authentication, privacy) and some how also have interoperability with facebook?

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Re:Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web by cyarvin on Thursday August 23, 2012 @08:58AM (#4422086)

Can you make a Tent (or more ambitious social p2p) client which is also an FB client? Of course.

FB and Twitter have APIs. Of course, they can revoke your key. But they have web clients, so they can be scraped.

Faced with a genuinely distributed opponent, there's no way the existing behemoths can keep your data in their silos.

For instance, FB can block tent.is at the API level or even at the IP level. But if Tent hosts pop up all around the internets, and if they are general-purpose enough that users can install their own scraping gateways, which can't be attacked centrally using technical or legal means... it's game over. To me this is one of the less recognized advantages of a distributed service.

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Re:Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web by maximveksler on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @02:41PM (#4450327)

I've been thinking about this idea a lot recently. I'm wondering if you would like to have a discussion? If so, please email me at [email protected]

Maxim.

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