gpg: Signature made Mon Mar 5 22:55:49 2007 UTC using DSA key ID E43DA450
gpg: Good signature from "Matthew John Toseland <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>"
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:22:20PM +0000, Volodya wrote:
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> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > In a nasty centralised way of course, but with the current state of
> > technology and deployment ALL social networking is nasty centralized
> > crap - partly because of NATs, partly because of business models, and
> > partly because nobody has got around to implementing good peer to peer
> > social networking sites.
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> Actually one of the things we considered was making it non-centralised. Since no radical
> person would want to store their social network on the external server... getting them to
> put it on their computer would be problematic, but asking them to "login and provide names
> of your friends" is impossible.
100% agreed! Post on -chat if you ever get something like this off the
ground. It's such a pain to run a web server as a regular netizen,
thanks to all the NATs and thanks to the hacks we have to do to work
around them which are either themselves centralized or unreliable... :<<
(See the current thread on devl)
