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I think eventually we will see something like GNU social or GNU communicator or some type of app that runs peer-to-peer rather than requiring you to set up a server to do things along the lines of Tweeting.

Projects like that already exist, they just aren't really popular yet.

I think we should promote content-centric/named-data p2p networking protocols.




Pipe dream. Decentralised networks sound well on paper, but you must be able to somehow stop abusive users, spammers, etc; you must be able to pay your bills (servers, employees, ...), etc


Twister is an example.


Gilgamesh is also similar, but works directly between Android devices over Bluetooth (not Internet).

https://github.com/n8fr8/gilgamesh




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