Dnia niedziela, 2 listopada 2014 02:17:50 tigrutigru@gmail.com pisze:
I've been to FSCONS today session: "Blurry line between private service and public infrastructure" covering a problem with decentralised, federated services and platforms which can be used as an alternative to FB.
Well hullo tharr. :)
There are many (Diaspora, Frendica, GNU social etc) , but use incompatible protocols, making it hard for users to choose, and fragmenting the community, making it look weak and small.
Well, Diaspora, Friendica and Red are already talking to each other with a common protocol; Friendica and StatusNet/GNU Social are also compatible. So The Federation (as was proposed to name the common network-of-social-networs) is already based on 4 different networks; others are finally starting to think about getting on the interoperability bandwagon. Compare and contrast to what was going on 2 years ago: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-fedsocweb/2013May/0058.html Tl;dr of that thread is "not invented here, impossiburu, we won't bother". Methinks we've done some progress.
Another problem is that most of them don't have client API's and do have a sorry-looking interface.
Well, Diaspora's interface is really fine these days. Friendica needs a lot of love; Red I don't personally know. Lack of client API is a huge problem, though. Here's a nice poll about what users want/need: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4304242 Client API wins hands down.
However, if those platforms would be compatible and talk to each other - in a session it was called "The Federation", this problem of fragmentation and poor user database is solved.
Well, as I said, Diaspora, Friendica, Red and GNU Social are already talking with each other with common protocols.
So far is the most promising solution I heard which can help to get people of Facebook hook, or at least use it when absolutely necessary, not to post your entire life on it.
Thanks; I was just describing what was happening on the libre side of social networking.
Most "evil" services we use, just need a decent easy to use functional alternative.
That's the crux, right after getting a common protocol implemented across different federated social networks. Also consider: http://rys.io/en/88
In the actual lecture the federation of decentralised social networks is described from the 28th minute https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R_uvYp3fog4
And here are the slides: http://rys.io/static/Blurry-line-between-private-service-and-public-infrastr... http://rys.io/static/Blurry-line-between-private-service-and-public-infrastr... Also, please join us at The Federation Assembly at #31C3: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly:The_Federation -- Pozdr rysiek