> It's very difficult, inefficient, and unreliable for your phone to serve out data to all-comers: it's a one-way street. But your phone can talk with your ser

> It's very difficult, inefficient, and unreliable for your phone to serve out data to all-comers: it's a one-way street. But your phone can talk with your server and anybody who wants to access what you allow them to, can simply talk with your server. It is perfectly possible to host your own server nowadays. > Imagine if the messages and photos you shared with your friends only lived on their phones or computers, and not in some server being scrutinised by security agencies, used for targeting ads, or at risk of being hacked. Yes, it is possbile by implementing the idea described above where everyone hosts its own data. Actually I'm working on something like this. Currently I have developed some minimal applications that allow you to share your status and chat. It still uses a single server for now to relay events between the clients, but I am working on making it P2P. You can check them if you want : https://fruit-fly.herokuapp.com/client/statusapp.html https://fruit-fly.herokuapp.com/client/statusapp.html https://fruit-fly.herokuapp.com/client/chat.html https://fruit-fly.herokuapp.com/client/chat.html