[HacktionLab] Facebook exodus & where are people going

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Genuinely P2P systems do get round the server cost problem, and peoples' habituation to installing apps on smartphones means there is an opening to a system that works based round something you have to install..

Plenty of other technical problems I'm sure

On 26 March 2018 23:03:17 BST, Sam UK <sam at bristolwireless.net> wrote:
>It's unclear to me how any service can scale to ubiquity within the
>current client/server model without a revenue stream. Servers, power
>and server admin all cost real money.
>
>I don't know what the answer is (clearly) but just making a prettier
>FOSS web app doesn't seem to be the way out of this.
>
>I'm hoping something like https://www.maidsafe.net will disrupt the
>way we think of web infrastructure, then it might be possible to build
>ubiquitous privacy respecting apps.
>
>2p

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