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Just looking at this from a technical perspective, it'll be pretty exciting if all this ends up leading to an explosion in the take up of self-hosted social med

by whobar 6y ago

Just looking at this from a technical perspective, it'll be pretty exciting if all this ends up leading to an explosion in the take up of self-hosted social media platforms. The question is, will the creators of these communities trust cloud providers where the platforms are hosted to not de-platform them, or will we end up with P2P, distributed networks instead?

gonzo41 6y ago
When you take you're tech to it's limit you get mailing lists, again.
- cousin_it 6y ago
  Then email providers will kick out unapproved users, DNS will kick out unapproved email providers, and so on. I want an anti-authoritarian internet. The past year has been surreal.
  - laurent92 6y ago
    Until China, Japan and Russia unite to provide disenfranchised Americans with a free internet that is off-limits from the grabbing hands of the US elites. And it will thrive and will be a better place to make more money that SV for 5-10 years, until it gets censored like any public space.
    - sidlls 6y ago
      Including “China” and “free internet” in the same sentence is hilarious. Unless something like “will never tolerate” is in between them.
    - pbourke 6y ago
      Are you seriously calling for China, of all countries, to create a network free of censorship?
sjg007 6y ago
It’ll have to be p2p maybe with super nodes to replicate. You will want a data mesh layer that multiple apps run on top of probably.
davidw 6y ago
> explosion in the take up of self-hosted social media platforms. Network effects drive a lot of adoption of these things, which is a huge headwind against an "explosion" of them lasting that long.