2014-07-06 23:28 GMT+03:00 rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl>:

Dnia niedziela, 6 lipca 2014 22:25:59 piszesz:

> hmm, I wonder are there any such open protocol specification created? I
> know about XMPP, but nothing more...

Well, there's the Diaspora protocol:
https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Federation_protocol_overview

And... StatusNet/OStatus, PumpIO, TentIO, ActivityStreams, BuddyCloud (XMPP-
based, I guess), and quite a few others I don't really remember. Some of them
are related, all are incompatible. And all the devs are showing strong
symptoms of the NIH syndrome.

Which is absurd.

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Pozdr
rysiek

that indeed is stupid and so no one have solved it yet... for social network or basically any IM/chat/etc to be usable it must have majority of people (eg. your friends) users there, otherwise without people they are totally useless so currently we're stuck with no-so-great applications/protocols only because everyone already are on them like Facebook and Skype. On that mailing list there were discussion about a polyglot protocol/application which could support all networks so users wouldn't be forced to migrate which I think is essential because a lot of people won't bother. There was mention to Sockethub which seems quite cool, only for a bit different use case I would say.
Another thing I would like to mention is BitlBee it is a gateway between various IM/chat networks and IRC so you can chat with friends on Facebook using your favorite IRC client, or post a tweet on your Twitter and use various other protocols. It even supports OTR.