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The problem isn't the monetization, the problem is the shutting down of services which arguably _made_ Twitter what it is. I was late to the Twitter game and i
by adamauckland 14y ago
The problem isn't the monetization, the problem is the shutting down of services which arguably _made_ Twitter what it is.
I was late to the Twitter game and it's running continually on my machine, but the programmer in me screams "This is a monolithic service dressed up as a protocol!". What we need is a P2P protocol which does the same thing.
- majormajor 14y agoA P2P-protocolized Twitter sounds pretty non-trivial to implement at scale due to the broadcast nature, compared to email. Seems like you'd have all the same issues Twitter did internally, without the VC-backed resources to throw at them. How realistic is it?
- justincormack 14y agoAlready been done, see status.net/identi.ca
- majormajor 14y agoI thought those were centrally hosted (aka, you can set up your own instance, but you're not serving as a peer server on one big network), and business-backed too? And not handling anything like the traffic of Twitter.
- creamyhorror 14y agoAlready been done: Tent.io - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4418904 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4418904 "Tent is a new protocol for open, distributed social networking. Tent is decentralized, not federated or centralized. Any Tent server can connect to any other Tent server. All features are available to any server as first-class citizens. Anyone can host their own Tent server." They're already running a beta service for end users at http://tent.is/ http://tent.is/.