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

[Henry Litwhiler]

On 3/28/10 2:13 PM, Jason Self wrote:
> Matt Lee<address@hidden>  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.
> >      
> +1
>
> Plus, remember that many ISPs (at least in the U.S.) prohibit their customers
> from running "servers" under penalty of cancellation.
>    
First of all it's a local web server - they would only be serving 
content to themselves, which is completely legal.

Secondly, it's peer-to-peer communication protocol, not a "server".