2014-07-06 23:28 GMT+03:00 rysiek <[email protected]>: > Dnia niedziela, 6 lipca 2014 22:25:59 piszesz: > > hmm, I wonder are there any such open protocol specification created? I > > know about XMPP, but nothing more... > > Well, there's the Diaspora protocol: > https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Federation_protocol_overview > > And... StatusNet/OStatus, PumpIO, TentIO, ActivityStreams, BuddyCloud > (XMPP- > based, I guess), and quite a few others I don't really remember. Some of > them > are related, all are incompatible. And all the devs are showing strong > symptoms of the NIH syndrome. > > Which is absurd. > > -- > Pozdr > rysiek
that indeed is stupid and so no one have solved it yet... for social network or basically any IM/chat/etc to be usable it must have majority of people (eg. your friends) users there, otherwise without people they are totally useless so currently we're stuck with no-so-great applications/protocols only because everyone already are on them like Facebook and Skype. On that mailing list there were discussion about a polyglot protocol/application which could support all networks so users wouldn't be forced to migrate which I think is essential because a lot of people won't bother. There was mention to Sockethub <http://sockethub.org/>which seems quite cool, only for a bit different use case I would say. Another thing I would like to mention is BitlBee <http://bitlbee.org> it is a gateway between various IM/chat networks and IRC so you can chat with friends on Facebook using your favorite IRC client, or post a tweet on your Twitter and use various other protocols. It even supports OTR.
