Re: Federation protocols

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On 31 May 2013 11:50, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak <rysiek@fwioo.pl> wrote:
>
>> Dnia piątek, 31 maja 2013 o 06:59:52 Melvin Carvalho napisał(a):
>> > On 30 May 2013 20:26, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak <rysiek@fwioo.pl> wrote:
>> >
>> > The web was designed to be social from day 1.  There are standards for
>> this
>> > kind of thing, but they are highly underused, with perhaps, the
>> exception
>> > of facebook.
>>
>> Are you talking about how Facebook uses XMPP? Otherwise, I don't see the
>> "open
>> social interoperable standard" in Facebook (although, granted, I'm not a
>> user
>> there).
>>
>
> There are many things about facebook that are not ideal, such as privacy
> issues and centralization, but it is a market leader and some of the
> technology is worth examining, imho
>
> There is the xmpp, but I'm more referring to how facebook uses web
> standards to federate.  Facebook federation is found on over 10% of all
> websites, so they must be doing something scalable.  The techniques are to
> leverage HTTP via the open graph protocol
>

Is it true federation though? I was under the impression that true
federation, in the SMTP sense, would mean that users don't have to have a
facebook account in order to interoperate.