Hi James,
This looks like an interesting approach. Has anybody used
it/hacked it/loved it/hated it? Is this something you want
to see in the FreedomBox?
http://project.friendika.com/
I have used Friendika.
What I like
Distributed Social Network software.
Create multiple profiles for
On 14 Jul 2011, at 20:50, Boaz wrote:
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Personally, I think that people overstate the advantages of WebID over
password authentication for this use case by emphasizing that WebID
frees people from thinking of and remembering passwords. It only does
that by having the browser think of
Well it could even be an e-mail with webfinger resolution.
IMO webfinger is a horrible overengineered exceedingly complicated
pseudo-solution. E-mail addresses aren't under the control of the owner.
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Standard disclaimer: non-developer's thoughts follow.
And for those who have time to spare, I put gave a presentation on Philosophy
and the Social Web and the first
philosophy and web conference last year in Paris. Though this is in English:
http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/
If you don't want
On 14 Jul 2011, at 21:25, Boaz wrote:
Henry, if you're interested in developing this, drop me a line on the
list or individually so we can talk more about it. Unfortunately, as
I've been warning at the very beginning of every post lately, I don't
yet have the know-how to give you some help
This is excellent. Nice work!
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:27:29 +0100, Keith Fernie m...@keithfernie.co.uk
wrote:
A slow Friendika (not Zot!) running on a Dreamplug can be tried out here
http://friendika.freedombox.me.uk
With Debian Squeeze Pagekite.
Also running with Nginx instead of
On 13 July 2011 13:09, Mike Macgirvin m...@macgirvin.com wrote:
This looks like an interesting approach. Has anybody used it/hacked
it/loved it/hated it? Is this something you want to see in the
FreedomBox?
http://project.friendika.com/
There are many other projects like it and a W3C
I'm not an expert, but I'm worried about how many federated social
alternatives are being developed, in many cases without tackling the
underlying problems. We have protocols for our needs, we just have to
integrate them, because each one is good for different needs. We have http for
On 07/13/2011 10:05 AM, Aitor Pazos wrote:
We have protocols for our needs, we just have to
integrate them, because each one is good for different needs.
...
It's a matter of
introducing some abstraction on top of them (akonadi already integrates almost
all this kind of services) and
WebID uses SSL, but as far as I understand it doesn't rely in any CA. The
certificates can be self-signed and they will work the same. It uses the
private key installed in your PC (which might not be very convenient) and
checks if it belongs to the public key (which you have copied sometime
On 13 Jul 2011, at 20:50, Boaz wrote:
You dont need to give your key on a slip of paper (you can if you want
of course), it's on your home page.
Hopefully your freedom box also hosts a web server too, preferably with https
Okay, so you have a home page, and on this home page is your key.
On 13 July 2011 23:32, Mike Macgirvin m...@macgirvin.com wrote:
On 14/07/2011 12:03 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
W3C is around to make sure everyone plays fairly, and everyone gets a
say. OStatus are there because they have made an effort and have
implementations. Zot can be too. Facebook
[Melvin]
...
I'll federate with whatever emerges - but so far all I have to work with is
an insecure spammy protocol which you can't get anywhere near private
messages - as it is publicly broadcast. We do our best to support it despite
these fundamental flaws.
[Mike]
...
Awesome. Hopefully
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