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Presumably he/she envisions a Facebook/BitTorrent hybrid with content replicated across the social graph. You'd get drafted into storing images for some subset

Presumably he/she envisions a Facebook/BitTorrent hybrid with content replicated across the social graph. You'd get drafted into storing images for some subset of the intersection of your social graph and several others, and the rest of your images would be served by someone(s) with whom your social graph intersects. Presumably invitations would be via e-mail, or, if you wanted to be even more decentralized, QR code.

PedroCandeias 16y ago
... Which assumes people keep their machines running 24/7 on unlimited data connections. It's a nice idea from a tech point of view, but for the life of me I cannot see how it's superior to what we already have.
- neutronicus 16y ago
  Well, except some degree of redundancy would be built in to the storage scheme á la BitTorrent. As far as data volume, I've got to imagine the data usage per user would be significantly less than BitTorrent. The desirable aspect of this system is obvious - the only people who see your data are people who've seen a QR code from someone in your social graph - your FaceTorrent profile will never, ever be indexed by Google.
  - aperiodic 16y ago
    > The desirable aspect of this system is obvious - the only people who see your data are people who've seen a QR code from someone in your social graph - your FaceTorrent profile will never, ever be indexed by Google. What if Google started offering, say, free Google Coupons (assuming they roll their own groupon) in exchange for befriending them on FaceTorrent? Not all of my friends and relatives value privacy as much as I do.
mukyu 16y ago
The best I have been able to make of it is that he wants to make a protocol where anyone can make an application/service and distribute arbitrary data via the browser. Basically, the internet at large except all of the 'computers' are actually web browsers running on actual computers.

PedroCandeias 16y ago

... Which assumes people keep their machines running 24/7 on unlimited data connections. It's a nice idea from a tech point of view, but for the life of me I cannot see how it's superior to what we already have.

neutronicus 16y ago
Well, except some degree of redundancy would be built in to the storage scheme á la BitTorrent. As far as data volume, I've got to imagine the data usage per user would be significantly less than BitTorrent. The desirable aspect of this system is obvious - the only people who see your data are people who've seen a QR code from someone in your social graph - your FaceTorrent profile will never, ever be indexed by Google.
- aperiodic 16y ago
  > The desirable aspect of this system is obvious - the only people who see your data are people who've seen a QR code from someone in your social graph - your FaceTorrent profile will never, ever be indexed by Google. What if Google started offering, say, free Google Coupons (assuming they roll their own groupon) in exchange for befriending them on FaceTorrent? Not all of my friends and relatives value privacy as much as I do.

mukyu 16y ago

The best I have been able to make of it is that he wants to make a protocol where anyone can make an application/service and distribute arbitrary data via the browser. Basically, the internet at large except all of the 'computers' are actually web browsers running on actual computers.