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Re: Can linux replace facebook?

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Date	2018-04-24 09:05 -0700
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Subject	Re: Can linux replace facebook?
From	Mustafa Cihan <musdogru@gmail.com>

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Dear Jacob,

Interesting idea to build a social network with credit card sized machines. Would be really nice and people will have really better privacy for sure.
Since you asked why we don't have it I will give you some problem points that this idea should solve.

First, free lures. Even if we all know nothing is free in this life. If you do not pay with money then you pay with something else (in Facebook case with your private information.) People will choose the free option.
The cost can be solved with integrated servers to the routers that are free (this time because you subscribed to the internet service provider).
We can have this piece of server integrated on routers that are anyways 24/7 on and connected.

Second, any good social network server we will have in our house is good for today and not for tomorrow so it needs to be updated. Who will update it and how to deploy it. We need central management of all apps (ios, android) and websites (desktop, tablet, etc.) synchronized and updated regularly.
No free solution can win the battle to facebook. (If you are not planning to ban it)

What is more, people are lazy. Probably even you and me just emailed the document (meaning giving a copy to google) to next room instead of sending the file by usb (more secure). So the solution should be even easier than facebook to share or no sharing will happen at all.

Finding friends will get harder. You need a centralized database (or kind of a blockchain) to search for friends. Don't forget how facebook sent you thousands of email to take you from emails to facebook. In time you forget your inbox and start your day with facebook. (you means not you especially)

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