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> There aren't any decentralized alternatives to Facebook, Google, or Twitter because nobody's been able to ship one. Untrue. http://gnu.io/ http://gnu.io/
by yarrel 12y ago
> There aren't any decentralized alternatives to Facebook, Google, or Twitter because nobody's been able to ship one.
Untrue.
http://gnu.io/ http://gnu.io/
- zaphar 12y agoYou've just made his point for him. When he says no one has been able to ship one what he means is not that no one tried to create one or even launched one. What he means is that no one created one and launched it with more than a small group of niche users. http://gnu.io/ http://gnu.io/ will only ever be used by niche users and will never get to the size or even utility of Facebook,Google, and Twitter. Pretending otherwise is just willful blindness.
- Lennie 12y agoI think there are 2 reasons for that. 1. building distributed systems is a lot harder 2. so deploying/building centralized systems just gets on the market faster and is quicker to develop for