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Re: [Social-discuss] What should GNU social be?
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Petr Viktorin |
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Re: [Social-discuss] What should GNU social be? |
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Fri, 5 Mar 2010 01:59:52 +0200 |
I don't think a Facebook bridge is something for a GNU project to make.
This is perfect for a plugin. Someone'll write it sooner or later anyway,
if Social takes off.
But it definitely shouldn't go into the Social codebase: for one, it couldn't
be tested, and thus developed/maintained, without a FB account.
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 01:39, Blaise Alleyne <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 10-03-04 02:38 PM, Ryan Prior wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Matt Lee<address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Should GNU social be a straight up replacement for existing social
>>> networks? I don't think so.
>>>
>>> Should GNU social include the creation of a protocol for decentralized,
>>> encrypted communication between social networks? I think it should.
>>> . . .
>>> We may decide to create a simple, Facebook-type UI as a demo for
>>> one of the possible applications of GNU social, but let's also consider
>>> the future and other ideas for social software.
>>>
>> Hey Matt,
>>
>> I agree with you totally on your second point, but I think that we do
>> need to create a straight-up replacement for existing social networks.
>>
>> The #1 thing that I want to bring out of GNU Social is a response to
>> the question "What else should I use?". If I see somebody frustrated
>> with Facebook and have a conversation about how it's harmful to trust
>> all your social data to a closed network, that conversation can only
>> go so far: whereas I can suggest to a disgruntled Windows or Mac user
>> that GNU offers a great alternative, I have no such offering for the
>> unhappy Facebook/Twitter/Myspace/LinkedIn user.
>>
>>
>
> I agree with both of you, in that GNU Social should be so much more than
> a Facebook replacement, but that a Facebook replacement may be
> necessary... but we can't underestimate the social challenges of
> creating a replacement that don't exist elsewhere. Daisycha.in might
> give us a free software social networking service to use, but it doesn't
> solve the problem of communicating with other people if other people
> aren't on Daisycha.in. See Identi.ca/Twitter... I'm very active on
> Identi.ca, but I also feel the need to maintain a presence on Twitter
> because there are so many people I want to communicate with who aren't
> using Identi.ca.
>
> So, my first comment is just that we can't understate or underestimate
> the challenge of the network effect in replacing social services.
>
> A question arises though... To what extent would we be willing to
> connect with other proprietary web services, to set up a bridge (in the
> way to emacs is available on Windows, or that Identi.ca has a Twitter
> bridge)? I'm not proposing this, because I haven't thought it through,
> I'm just raising the question -- would we entertain the idea of creating
> a Facebook app, or using Facebook Connect, to allow someone to bring
> their Facebook activity over to a new, free social networking service?
> To connect with friends on a proprietary web service, to the extent that
> it's possible via their APIs?
>
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Re: [Social-discuss] What should GNU social be?, Ted Smith, 2010/03/04
Re: [Social-discuss] What should GNU social be?, Blaise Alleyne, 2010/03/04