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You could have said this same argument about Wikipedia vs Encarta back in 2000. An open source, distributed social network doesn't need many servers and can be
by TimJRobinson 9y ago
You could have said this same argument about Wikipedia vs Encarta back in 2000.
An open source, distributed social network doesn't need many servers and can be built by volunteers, so you don't need VC funding or a monetization model. Just get everyone to host and share their content and the content of their peers.
It may be like Linux and never be fully mass market, but that's totally fine by me, I share different content with my geekier friends than with my non-technical family anyway.
- threatofrain 9y agoI think the volunteer model abuses a minority of weird humans with the instinct to help too much. We need a model that scales while addressing the status quo diversity of humanity. What I really mean is the fact that almost nobody wants to help, and almost everyone wants free stuff at world-class level (they don't want shitty free things, they want Google/FB level of free).