<html><head></head><body>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..<br>
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Plenty of other technical problems I'm sure<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 March 2018 23:03:17 BST, Sam UK <sam@bristolwireless.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-g-ui-min-height-300 gmail-content-content" style="outline:0px;min-height:300px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-bodyText gmail-g-ui-min-height-300 gmail-rl-mv-root" style="outline:0px;min-height:300px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><div id="gmail-rl-mgs-764c3284610a4e24b90a6947b62ec070" class="gmail-rl-cache-class gmail-b-text-part gmail-plain" style="outline:0px;height:435.977px;padding:15px;font-family:Monaco,Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace;display:block"><pre style="outline:0px;font-family:Monaco,Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace;font-size:13px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);border-radius:4px;display:block;margin:0px;line-height:20px;word-break:normal;word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;background:rgb(255,255,255);border:none">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.<br style="outline:0px"><br style="outline:0px">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.<br style="outline:0px"><br style="outline:0px">I'm hoping something like <a href="https://www.maidsafe.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline:0px;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(102,0,153);text-decoration:underline">https://www.maidsafe.net</a> will disrupt the way we think of web infrastructure, then it might be possible to build ubiquitous privacy respecting apps.<br style="outline:0px"><br style="outline:0px">2p <br style="outline:0px"></pre></div></div></div><br></div>
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