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

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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

#52445 — Open-source vs. closed-source for centralised social-networks?

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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#52477 — Writing a “social network” in Python (was: Open-source vs. closed-source for centralised social-networks?)

Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> writes:

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

Welcome! This forum is for discussing the practice of programming with
Python.

Your topic doesn't seem much to do with Python (and no, “I'm writing it
in Python” isn't much to do with Python unless your *question* is
specific to Python).

> Personally, I am using Python to build a niche social-network.

Great! What Python-related question did you want to ask?

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#52613 — Re: Writing a “social network” in Python (was: Open-source vs. closed-source for centralised social-networks?)

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Is this social network  app based, or browser based. Either will need an
updated server file, or a db field.




On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>wrote:

> Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Fear open-sourcing fledgling social-networks; as centralisation is
> > easily losable.
>
> Welcome! This forum is for discussing the practice of programming with
> Python.
>
> Your topic doesn't seem much to do with Python (and no, “I'm writing it
> in Python” isn't much to do with Python unless your *question* is
> specific to Python).
>
> > Personally, I am using Python to build a niche social-network.
>
> Great! What Python-related question did you want to ask?
>
> --
>  \           “Oh, I love your magazine. My favorite section is ‘How To |
>   `\          Increase Your Word Power’. That thing is really, really, |
> _o__)                          really... good.” —Homer, _The Simpsons_ |
> Ben Finney
>
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>



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