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I think that approaching this as a technical problem isn't the best approach. Unless the business questions are answered (how does one make a billion user socia

I think that approaching this as a technical problem isn't the best approach. Unless the business questions are answered (how does one make a billion user social network that makes enough money to keep the servers running without the mess facebook created), the code doesn't really matter that much. Making a social network is easy. Making one that sticks and satisfies this criteria is much harder.

marknadal 9y ago
Very true, and is kinda a sad reflection of us/me/people-in-general. I still use Facebook, because its easy conveniences outweigh my frustration. :/ So what do we do? SSB is pretty good, and I think the Beaker guys are working on one too. They require you to download/install to your desktop though, which I'm fine with, but I don't think consumers will bother with.
- egypturnash 9y ago
  They'll probably bother with downloading an app to their phones and tablets, though. Beaker's desktop-only. So's Scuttlebutt. Half the world doesn't even own a desktop. Get this stuff running on phones. Figure out how to cram a server into a single iOS/Android app along with the client.
leppr 9y ago
The challenge here seems to be making a decentralized social network, where users truly own their data. This is a very hard tech and UX design problem, and hasn't been satisfactorily implemented yet.