Adam, the use-case I have in mind is not specific - I am asking generally about the feasibility of running facebook on top of a distributed social network. Lately I've become concerned about the concentration of power in Facebook's hands.
>From a theoretical point of view I don't see why a distributed social net couldn't work. GMail works with YahooMail works with Hotmail, etc. Of course there are much bigger challenges distributing a social net across different providers, but it should be achievable. So when I say P2P I don't necessarily mean fully distributed - I mean more of the e-mail model. Best, Susheel On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Adam Fisk <a...@littleshoot.org> wrote: > I don't really know of any per se, but I also think it's a tricky > proposition. As Mr. Gorton always used to say, P2P works best for big files, > and I really agree. The raw social networking stuff is so data driven and so > cheap and predominantly such small files that I think doing it via p2p is > making a relatively simple problem all of a sudden hard. > > That said, I'm sure you have a specific use-case in mind, or you wouldn't > have asked =). > > -Adam > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Susheel Daswani <sdasw...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Does anyone know of any? >> >> Thanks! >> Susheel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> p2p-hackers mailing list >> p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com >> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers >> >> > > > -- > Adam Fisk > http://www.littleshoot.org | http://adamfisk.wordpress.com | > http://twitter.com/adamfisk >
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