Re: Can linux replace facebook?

From	Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject	Re: Can linux replace facebook?
Message-ID	<nIcEZxNuOsug9OQ7L8qu2ayCLM3tx@bongo-ra.co> (permalink)
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Organization	virginmedia.com
Date	2018-10-06 04:51 +0000

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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.

Don't you need a stead IP address for this ? I don't know how ISPs assign
IP addresses but mine has changed a few times over the years.

[...]

> TCP/IP is decentralized, and can handle the construction of networks of 
> friends, or people interested in sharing data/stories, whatever.

Is it decentralized ? Don't most people need an ISP ? How many ISPs are
in a country ? I would imagine in most countries there are few enough to
get in cahoots about whatever suits them but not necessarily their users.

[...]

> And I still do not understand why we do not have a linux phone.

Did you try googling for "linux phones" ?

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