Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kyonshi Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps Subject: Re: Can linux replace facebook? Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:14:59 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 63 Message-ID: <20240412151459.00004349@gmail.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:48:19 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="90b13fd3797e448e821ab8b326fe1c79"; logging-data="2744788"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ddpeG1CioMND8q83XbtbU" User-Agent: Hamster/2.1.0.1548 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5MtSmICPVAc94uSApJSzCRvE0jw= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.development.apps:1073 On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:37:34 +0200 jacobnavia 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. ah... that was in fact from the tenth of April 2018 instead of 2024. My bad for the thread necromancy.