Re: [Social] Fwd: GNU/social legacy

[Ben Laurie]

On 7 December 2012 16:38, Melvin Carvalho <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 7 December 2012 16:30, Evan Prodromou <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> That's an interesting position, considering that there are 2-4 OOM more
>> people on the OStatus network than on every other federated social network
>> put together.
>>
>> What's your position?
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> Facebook has it right, tent is almost there, OStatus has it wrong.  Many of
> the constituent technologies of OStatus have been described as 'fails' by
> the authors, tho this is I think is too strong.
>
> Build a federated network based on http identifiers, rather than, trying to
> breathe life into webmail style identifiers.  Tolerance in the identity
> space is what allows scaling.
>
> This was the advice given to GNU Social when Matt Lee met with Tim
> Berners-Lee.  It's as true today as it was then.

Really? Almost everyone else in the identity world disagrees! In
particular, the main reason it is thought OpenID hasn't caught on is
because it uses URLs instead of email addresses as identifiers.