On 3/28/10 2:06 PM, Matt Lee wrote:
On 03/28/2010 02:03 PM, Henry Litwhiler wrote:
I don't see why users have to be able to use commodity hosting. If we
make it easy enough, anyone can host their own GNU Social install, p2p
style.
Because I don't believe the majority of people will.
What will they host it on? The majority of Facebook users don't have a
machine they can install their own servers on. Being able to use this
from anywhere is key for success, and that means browser based.
I would first like to say that I maintain that a Python/C backend would
be the best solution for a truly distributed social networking scheme.
However, I recognize the concerns of the other people on the mailing
list over the chances of success of such as scheme, and I will not say
that they are not valid ones. PHP is by no means the /best/ solution
here, but if it is indeed the /only/ solution, then it will have to be
/the/ solution.
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Henry L.
