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Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by stingraycharles on Sunday February 01, 2015 @08:26AM (#8979824)
Huh what? Are you really suggesting facebook could be run on a few dozen servers, or are you just trolling?
Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by yuvadam on Sunday February 01, 2015 @08:36AM (#8979831)
Not centrally, no. But many existing P2P networks prove that you do not need massive data centers to hoard everyone's data. You can use the collaborative effort of humanities existing computation devices.

Decentralize all the things.

Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by stingraycharles on Sunday February 01, 2015 @09:21AM (#8979923)
That was not the point he was making -- he was making the point that "even with facebook's amount of traffic, you could host it on a dozen servers". That is just so far detached from reality I cannot take that seriously.

I agree that p2p social networks are an interesting alternative, but they are a whole different kind of product and a kind of apples / oranges comparison in terms of cost of operation.

Re:Get your loved ones off Facebook by gnopgnip on Sunday February 01, 2015 @04:20PM (#8981711)
Decentralization is less efficient. Instead of each piece of information being copied in a few place it would need to be copied to hundreds or thousands with a decentralized system.