You misunderstand. Signing up to these services is generally easy, and there are a number of instances up and running for each. However, there is as far as I know, no integrated service running an XMPP service, a mail server, an OStatus instance, all connected and having the same user database, reasonable connections between them etc etc.
It is certainly doable to install all of these, but currently it is hard, in the sense that you need some rather in-depth knowledge to properly glue everything together. Making it easy to set up a server with a multitude of useful services will not make each and every person set such a server up, but it may mean that a much larger group of people _know_ someone who can set up such a server. Incidentally, I have been thinking, writing (one or two) blog posts on, but due to time constraints not actually implementing or promoting such a project. Best /P On 07 June, 2013 - Yishay Mor wrote: > "If all this already exists, why isn’t everybody doing it? Well, simply > because there is *no integration at all among all those objects*. " > > No. we don't need no software bundles. we don't need no sleek installers. > How long does it take me to set up a gmail account? facebook account? > flickr account? 20 seconds. how much does it cost me to set up? how much > does it cost me to maintain? (ok, skype is an exception, I do need to > install). > > See that's the standard you're competing with. Most users don't own server > space, physical or virtual, and would not in a million years be convinced > to buy any. > > Yishay > > ___________________________ > http://www.yishaymor.org > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > > > On 7 June 2013 09:47, M. Fioretti <mfiore...@nexaima.net> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 09:16:32 AM +0200, Eduardo Robles Elvira wrote: > > > Stop promoting google hangout and hotmail, yahoo, gmail, outlook.com... > > =) > > > > and start promoting their replacement via user-friendly bundling of > > Free Software that already exist and may run in a portable way on any > > cheap VPS: > > > > > > http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/01/the-alternatives-to-apple-facebook-c-already-exist-shall-we-package-them/ > > > > -- > > M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net > > > > Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how > > software is used *around* you > > -- > > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Petter Ericson (pett...@acc.umu.se) -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
