This is a good question. Personally, I would rather see a bunch of protocols and some solid implementations, which is pretty much what you are talking about. But i am not a deeply private person.
Others put privacy first, and compatibility and interoperability second. This is also a very valid point of view. In the end it becomes a trade-off where the developers will be forced to choose between communication and privacy. Hopefully the choices will be niche ones, but at this point it's a bit hard to tell. I'm not sure toward which side GNU Social is leaning at them moment - I think they are more privacy focused. Either way, it is very worth discussing, and both avenues are worth exploring technically as well - let the users choose? On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Matija Šuklje <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > -- Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson [email protected] http://bre.klaki.net/ Use http://bre.klaki.net/bre/contact.shtml to bypass my spam filters. .oOo.oOo. PGP: 02764305, B7A3AB89 .oOo.oOo.
