What happens when you lose your phone? Something you take out and about and that someone can easily steal or can easily be damaged or lost is not a good server.
Yes, but you should have a backup anyway. The bigger problem will be connectivity and bandwidth costs in case one of your posts gets hit by a site like HN.
For that to be viable, we'd need an unprecedented compression algorithm to work around bandwidth and storage limits. But yeah, then we could basically have a second, decentralized internet.
Pied Piper is working on that.
I agree. Unfortunately I think that’s practically impossible given battery constraints.
Unless we want to stream movies and music from our phones, most asynchronous text-based communication is extremely lightweight.
A truly p2p/f2f messaging / social platform that uses only text can get away with kilobytes of data per hour if you think about the amount of text the user is capable of typing and reading.
Disagree. Too ephemeral. Answer is for server to be at home, accessible from anywhere with your phone.