[cyarvin]

Can you make a Tent (or more ambitious social p2p) client which is also an FB client? Of course.

FB and Twitter have APIs. Of course, they can revoke your key. But they have web clients, so they can be scraped.

Faced with a genuinely distributed opponent, there's no way the existing behemoths can keep your data in their silos.

For instance, FB can block tent.is at the API level or even at the IP level. But if Tent hosts pop up all around the internets, and if they are general-purpose enough that users can install their own scraping gateways, which can't be attacked centrally using technical or legal means... it's game over. To me this is one of the less recognized advantages of a distributed service.

[maximveksler]

I've been thinking about this idea a lot recently. I'm wondering if you would like to have a discussion? If so, please email me at [e-mail]

Maxim.