Well, it is one thing to make a technology that appeals to technologists, and quite another to make one that can be used by the general public. That is what is at issue here - getting John Q Public to quit playing in the facebook sandbox. I am not seeing that in this idea.
I agree... That will be the challenge. But seriously it is perfect timing for this. Everything in the network is encrypted, most is peer to peer or group peer to peer without a third party.
And there are third party servers if you wish to entertain those too, but your data is locked up and safe using these because it is all encrypted.
The cool thing I see is that everyone can quickly put together their own server for businesses etc. No need for web hosting and third party contracts controlling you.
When they get done, because they are working on it now from what I see, there will be one click app install packages for the folks who are not techy.
Been reading the chatter about it here...
Hey... The internet we have now started with personal servers that had to be dialed into by phone and they all had green screens... Gotta be positive and start somewhere... If we stay negative this mess we have now will never get fixed.
I don’t know about you... But I’m not a quitter and not going to bend over and just accept it as is. This mess is about to kill the Internet altogether.
Have you done any of the new Linux packages yet? They are no longer techy and VERY user friendly. The one I am using now is basically win 7 with much better features and uses 1/10th the resources. It just plain kicks ass over MS. But it was started just like this is and is now a powerful boob friendly OS hard to beat.