Re: Federation protocols

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak <rysiek@fwioo.pl>wrote:

>
> > > > This could be things like federated media sharing or quick ways to
> add
> > > > a social layer to their mobile app or game.
> > >
> > > Great. Let's promote a single, well-defined protocol and this will be
> > > possible.
> >
> > Where do existing protocols like pump and buddycloud fail? What would the
> > single unified protocol do differently?
>
> Network effect:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
>
> Usefulness of a social network grows exponentially with the number of
> users.
> If BuddyCloud, Pump.io, Diaspora and Friendica could all seamlessly
> interop,
> the "power" of such a network would be several orders of magnitude larger
> than
> the simple sum of all parts.
>
>
I think it's been touched on, but maybe we need to be more specific here.
What would these sites federating look like, specifically? If you could
dream it up. Are we talking a "kitchen sink" of a social network? It's
twitter and facebook and chat and google+ all combined into one monolithic
feed that can be interpreted by any of these sites?