It looks like you've taken a lot of steps in this direction, but I
wonder if any steps have been made in the direction of full
site/identity transparency?
It seems like with the w/t/f split, better rss support, etc for cross
site inclusion/references, etc, your most of the way there.
The piece I haven't seen is some way to automatically follow users if
they change where their journal is hosted.
What if there was some way to link everything around an OpenID or
other trust mechanism? When you trust the OpenID, anything that uses
it for a pull will get the appropriate level of trust. When you watch
the OpenID, you ask it where the actual content is, then pull from
there.
That way, someone can use an upgraded version of the existing model --
they go onto a site, tell people where it is, and people can
watch/trust them as long as they're on a compatible site. Or, if
they're excessively paranoid, they can host a journal system on their
own site and have everyone use OpenID to watch/trust them.
Or, if they're paranoid but don't want to maintain a journal engine, they
can have a pobox-style (only for journals) service store their OpenID
and provide linkage info, and put their journal in an obvious place
(like, say, Dreamwidth -- somewhere they trust, just not enough to
have an escape route). If all goes well, they keep things as they
are, but if something happens (or they just decide its time for a
change), they make a new journal wherever, load it up with data, and
update the OpenID pointer to point to the new journal -- and suddenly
everyone (who friended the OpenID, at least) is looking at the new
location, not the old one -- without them having to send out lots of
"I'm here now, please update your pointers" messages.
Is this feasible? Desirable?
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