I once hit upon a P2P twitter-clone project. It thought and think the idea is great, but you still needed a twitter account for some reason, that was a bummer.
So if someone comes with a P2P twitter clone, that would be something:
- no advertising
- no censoring (china!)
- large cache of tweets stored for offline viewing
- all kinds of additional services could connect, like history logs, searching, discovery, notifications.
A drawback would be the lack of speed, as p2p networks have delays, obviously. But this could be overcome at least partly by making followers also p2p neighbors, me thinks.
So if someone comes with a P2P twitter clone, that would be something: - no advertising - no censoring (china!) - large cache of tweets stored for offline viewing - all kinds of additional services could connect, like history logs, searching, discovery, notifications.
A drawback would be the lack of speed, as p2p networks have delays, obviously. But this could be overcome at least partly by making followers also p2p neighbors, me thinks.