Re: What we need in a next-gen social network

>> Are you willing to help make it happen?  Because the solutions have
>> been in waiting.
>
> Sure!  I'd be happy to look at any systems out there, especially if they
> offer genuine choice of storage that its determined by the user, rather
> than, the developer ...

The Pangaia project is a p2p solution, creating a content-addressed
network rather than using domain names.  That means each person's
computer becomes part of the cloud.  The individual gets to choose how
much of their personal content they want to publish to the "cloud".
Availability is done in the model of Freenet: redundancy.   Popular
items are copied to peers who use and can serve the content.

You might take a look at the mediawiki page on sourceforge.  The
project name is pangaia, but the actual protocols that get used will
be determined by several factors.  But two that are not
countermandable are using TCP sockets, and the standard model of
computation whereby Linux is the primary anchor point.  That is, the
crazy instability that is Javascript is not a suitable platform, for
example.
-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington

Received on Monday, 25 November 2013 21:13:18 UTC