LJ replacement

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What we need is one of autopope's distributed redundant virtual servers, as described in Halting State. (Brief description for those who haven't read it yet - pervasive virtual world layers run on a distributed network, fragments of heavily encrypted data stored on all the subscribers' mobile phones in a BitTorrent-like fashion.)

This would solve the single biggest problem with online journalling, which is maintaining critical network mass while still staying independent of corporate control. (I'm not going to get into the pros and cons of corporate control generally, and LJ/SUP specifically. I just want an unowned platform to work with.)

Of course, that just leaves the small problem of getting to the network takeoff point to start with. Can't convince people to use the platform (and hence provide the platform) without an application layer, and Yet Another Social Networking Site isn't going to be it.

So pushing it as a generic protocol layer for distributed world-like applications (which is to say, communications media) is probably the way to go.

We don't talk about darknets yet.

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