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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.

ah... that was in fact from the tenth of April 2018 instead of 2024. My
bad for the thread necromancy.

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