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.

  

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.