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Re: Can linux replace facebook?

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On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:37:34 +0200
jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> wrote:

> Why you need facebook?
> 
> To share photos, messages, whatever with your friends.
> 
> A machine that is accessible using TCP/IP can do all that without any 
> social network. You give your friends your address (or tcpip ID) and
> you can share anything in digital form with them. You can visit
> discussion forums held in your machine or in some friend's machine.
> 
> Linux can do all that. It is able to store images, and display them
> to any browser that happens to request it.
> 
> Instead of giving your data to an organization that will sell it to 
> advertisers, you can build your own site and share ideas or whatever 
> with your friends. Directly, without any one else intervening.
> 
> What about a "node" machine, the size of a credit card?
> 
> I am running linux in an ARM64, the size of a credit card. Using a
> cheap 1TB SSD, the thing runs incredibly well. And could be a good FB
> replacement!
> 
> Social networks are an industry that is inherently dangerous if
> centralized.
> 
> TCP/IP is decentralized, and can handle the construction of networks
> of friends, or people interested in sharing data/stories, whatever.
> 
> Networks that do not lead into a centralized nightmare where the guys 
> behind the scenes sell the data to advertisers.
> 
> Just networks of people, without any central store.
> 
> This kind of networks would be straight networking: nothing more. All 
> the data is decentralized in each machine, and it is your property,
> not somebody else's that has become one of the richest people in the
> world by selling the data people give him!
> 
> What software would be needed?
> 
> An easy to use, do it yourself public page editor, where you publish 
> text, photos, videos, whatever you feel like sharing with the others. 
> And instead of typing "facebook" you type the id of the person you
> want to visit.
> 
> Yes, the machine should be running 24H a day so anyone that wants to 
> visit you can do it without your intervention. Or you could be near
> the machine and start speaking with the personn  that is visiting you
> (a microphone is quite cheap) and even you can have a video phone
> call with your friends.
> 
> Deevelopping such an app would be fun... and it could have incredibly 
> good consequences: a social network machine where YOU are again at
> the helm of the machine and not the other way around.
> 
> And I still do not understand why we do not have a linux phone.

You might be interested to have a look at the tilde scene, which tries
to bring back the times when people had access to shared computers.

Or you can look at nextcloud, which has filesharing, chat, video
conferencing, webmail, and a few other things inbuilt (I ran it from my
rp3b+ and it was sluggish bur principally worked). That could work as a
small social site for friends and family.

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