Re: [Social-discuss] Languages -- let's make a web application

[Henry Litwhiler]

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.
>
>    
It can be hosted on their main machine.

All I'm saying is that most people can figure out how to run any other 
piece of p2p software (torrent client, etc.) - GNU Social won't be much 
harder.

Plus I'm not saying that everyone runs some PHP application on their 
home web server that all their friends connect to through their web 
browsers whenever they want to talk with the person.

PHP should be viewed as a convenient way of displaying the data being 
aggregated by the Python/C backbone - users will only have to point 
their browsers to localhost to interact with the GNU Social backbone, 
which handles all the node-to-node communication.

--
Henry L.