Open-source vs. closed-source for centralised social-networks?

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2013-08-13 01:20 -0700
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Subject	Open-source vs. closed-source for centralised social-networks?
From	Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com>

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Fear open-sourcing fledgling social-networks; as centralisation is easily losable.

Open-sourcing social-networks when large, seems to work (e.g.: Reddit).

Without centralisation it becomes difficult to establish community. An example of a "decentralised" open-source social-network is: Disapora. Personally, I am using Python to build a niche social-network.

Is it more likely that open-sourcing a niche fledgling social-network would result in: many decentralised communities—or one [larger] centralised community?

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Open-source vs. closed-source for centralised social-networks? Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 01:20 -0700
  Writing a “social network” in Python (was: Open-source vs. closed-source for centralised social-networks?) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-14 09:08 +1000
  Re: Writing a “social network” in Python (was: Open-source vs. closed-source for centralised social-networks?) David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2013-08-16 21:15 -0400

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