Comments on: The first distributed tool for a new Sharing Economy https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/first-distributed-tool-new-sharing-economy/2016/03/23 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 29 May 2017 21:46:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: paulfree14 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/first-distributed-tool-new-sharing-economy/2016/03/23/comment-page-1#comment-1578632 Mon, 29 May 2017 21:46:45 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=54909#comment-1578632 Great aproach. Have always tried to convince dev. who are interested in developing sharing plattforms build on top of exisiting standarts like zot or ostatus. Until now they refused cause of missing experience in this field, and keeping things simple to for the start.

Does anyone know’s more projects/people working on simliar aproaches. Would like to follow up their progress.

]]> By: Daniel Strypey Bruce https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/first-distributed-tool-new-sharing-economy/2016/03/23/comment-page-1#comment-1564008 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:21:20 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=54909#comment-1564008 This is a great initiative. Platforms like neighbourly.co.nz offer the ability to share tools with your neighbours, and the online exchanges at TimeBanks.org allow for sharing favours. But all these platforms run on servers, and servers cost money in hosting fees, which means they are either controlled by a business that needs to make money to survive or run by community groups that survive on volunteer time, and pay their hosting with public funding or membership fees. Sharing on GNU Social offers an alternative to both of these.

Just one question. Why use GNU Social? Why not XMPP, or Pump.io or Tent.io or Hubzilla or some other decentralized platform? Or a distributed platform like BitMessage or Twister?

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