[junto]

I think (hope) that eventually these centralised monoliths will be taken over by distributed versions.

The Internet Of Things IoT will be a precursor to any device being a node in a massive mesh net. That means that I can run my own private, secure personal social node on my cell phone, or even on my toaster.

The front end app will literally just be a front. The backend processing can be done on any number of nano-cloud processing instances run by companies like Amazon or Microsoft.

Storage similarly will be outsourced, but all data will be protected at rest using strong encryption.

[henriquea]

Really like the idea about our own distributed/private-cloud version but I struggle to see ordinary users using it.

[losvedir]

Same. I'm very excited about sandstorm.io, though. A lot of very smart people behind it, and the idea of being able to install "SaaS" apps onto your personal server at the click of a button from an app store, but where you own the data and can move from Linode to AWS to a home server, etc, is very cool.

[jzd]

Plebs can't handle decentralization.