On 5. März 2010 00:39, Blaise Alleyne <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 10-03-04 02:38 PM, Ryan Prior wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Matt Lee<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Should GNU social be a straight up replacement for existing social >>> networks? I don't think so. >>> >>> Should GNU social include the creation of a protocol for decentralized, >>> encrypted communication between social networks? I think it should. >>> . . . >>> We may decide to create a simple, Facebook-type UI as a demo for >>> one of the possible applications of GNU social, but let's also consider >>> the future and other ideas for social software. >>> >>> Hey Matt, >> >> I agree with you totally on your second point, but I think that we do >> need to create a straight-up replacement for existing social networks. >> >> The #1 thing that I want to bring out of GNU Social is a response to >> the question "What else should I use?". If I see somebody frustrated >> with Facebook and have a conversation about how it's harmful to trust >> all your social data to a closed network, that conversation can only >> go so far: whereas I can suggest to a disgruntled Windows or Mac user >> that GNU offers a great alternative, I have no such offering for the >> unhappy Facebook/Twitter/Myspace/LinkedIn user. >> >> >> > I agree with both of you, in that GNU Social should be so much more than > a Facebook replacement, but that a Facebook replacement may be > necessary... but we can't underestimate the social challenges of > creating a replacement that don't exist elsewhere. Daisycha.in might > give us a free software social networking service to use, but it doesn't > solve the problem of communicating with other people if other people > aren't on Daisycha.in. See Identi.ca/Twitter... I'm very active on > Identi.ca, but I also feel the need to maintain a presence on Twitter > because there are so many people I want to communicate with who aren't > using Identi.ca. > > So, my first comment is just that we can't understate or underestimate > the challenge of the network effect in replacing social services. > > A question arises though... To what extent would we be willing to > connect with other proprietary web services, to set up a bridge (in the > way to emacs is available on Windows, or that Identi.ca has a Twitter > bridge)? I'm not proposing this, because I haven't thought it through, > I'm just raising the question -- would we entertain the idea of creating > a Facebook app, or using Facebook Connect, to allow someone to bring > their Facebook activity over to a new, free social networking service? > To connect with friends on a proprietary web service, to the extent that > it's possible via their APIs? > It reminds me a bit of the linux kernel. While it works well as an OS in itself, there's also a team of people building 'drivers' other technologies. To the extent that it's legal, I think it's a valid goal of daisycha.in to create bridges/drivers other services, starting with the low hanging fruit of open APIs. > > > -- > http://www.alleyneinc.net/ > > > > -- > http://www.alleyneinc.net/ > > > >
