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Re: Can linux replace facebook?

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Le 24/04/2018 à 18:05, Mustafa Cihan a écrit :
> 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.

Look, people weren't AWARE that facebook was stealing their data. Now 
they are, and many people are signing off facebook. The linux system 
would be for THOSE people at first (geeks, like we are).

THEN, when the machine has spread and has some momentum, other less 
"geeky" people would start using it since it is very cheap. People do 
buy portable phones, computers, etc.

> 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.


This is already done by

apt-get upgrade

isn't it???

No AUTOMATIC upgrades but maybe a cron job that would put a reminder 
each week?

Doesn't look like rocket science to me...


> No free solution can win the battle to facebook. (If you are not planning to ban it)
> 

Linux has thrived since more than 20 years in a world of commercial 
OSes. A linux solution could be done without a lot of problems.


> 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.
> 

Since people are "lazy", if linux offers a simple solution (you can 
email easily from your linux PC to anyone without anyone receiving a 
copy besides the person you want) people will use it!



> 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)
> 

The same thing will happen when you have your linux computer. You 
forget about facebook and start your day  with your inbox.

How did facebook start?

Because geek people adopted it. If the geek start really pushing a Linux 
solution it will work.

How do you search for friends?

You search an open database where you put

Name
Email
Interests

Since that database is public, it is also accessible to spammers and 
commercial interests, but that is KNOWN and you put into THAT database 
only data you know is harmless and you want to make public!

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