There is a very good reason peer to peer social networks can't work nowadays (not even considering diaspora quality).
It's not about internet overlords. It's not about ad industry pressure. It's not about governments pressure.
It's about internet access providers. Most of them provide unbalanced bandwidth : you have high speed download and low speed upload.
Which user would want his peers to watch a video streaming at a few hundreds kb/sec ? P2P social networks can only fail until we have decent upload bandwith.
Granted, if it's really P2P, people you authorize seeing it can then participate in its sharing, but it still is not acceptable on very first minutes after posting : you may have something like 10 people trying to download your content from your ridiculous upload speed, which, btw, can greatly affect your browsing experience meanwhile.
The US may be an exception but here in Europe I think most people have 1 mbit upload; that seems plenty to me. Video might be tricky, but typically you use YouTube for that anyway. FB isn't in the business of hosting videos so why should a p2p social network be?
It's not about internet overlords. It's not about ad industry pressure. It's not about governments pressure.
It's about internet access providers. Most of them provide unbalanced bandwidth : you have high speed download and low speed upload.
Which user would want his peers to watch a video streaming at a few hundreds kb/sec ? P2P social networks can only fail until we have decent upload bandwith.
Granted, if it's really P2P, people you authorize seeing it can then participate in its sharing, but it still is not acceptable on very first minutes after posting : you may have something like 10 people trying to download your content from your ridiculous upload speed, which, btw, can greatly affect your browsing experience meanwhile.