Hullo, I know this is in a way another buzzword, but I've been wondering lately about interoperability of diverse Free social networking systems.
Use case: Alice is a user of an Appleseed instance; Andrew is a user of an Appleseed instance; Boris is a user of a BuddyPress instance; Charlie is a user of a Crabgrass instance; Diana is a user of a Diaspora instance; Darwin is a user of a Diaspora instance; Estefan is a user of an Elgg instace; Gérémie is a user of a GNU Social/DaisyChain instance. Can/will all these people communicate via their Free social networking instances with others? If we end up with a bunch of separate social networks and Alice can communicate only with Andrew; Diana with Darwin; and all the rest are just islands to themselves, we haven't solved anything really. To some extent if we succeed only with intra-system, but not inter-system interoperability, the situation wouldn't be much different then the status quo in the long run, where Romeo is from Facebook and Juliet from MySpace, so to speak. Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: [email protected]
