- From: hpl <hpl1989@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:12:55 +0800
- To: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
- CC: buddycloud-dev@googlegroups.com, Simon Tennant <simon@buddycloud.com>, "public-fedsocweb@w3.org" <public-fedsocweb@w3.org>, pl h <hpl1989@gmail.com>
I also very like the use of EMail. EMail has been a success for dozens of years. It's natural federation. If we can overlay the social functions on top of it, a decentralized social network is readily available. It's hard to ask your friends to create new accounts on a DSN, but everyone has email and we only need more social functions. Another advantage is that, email can **gracefully degrade**. You don't need everyone to adopt a protocol to jumpstart the system. People who use social enabled clients can extract more meta data from the multipart codings. People who do not use that can still get information in degraded format, e.g. plaintext, HTML. We have been trying this in SNSAPI. Since email is a less active channel than others, we have not designed the meta data. Currently, only plaintext data is sent. Looking forward to sophisticated design. Pili On 25/7/13 6:34 PM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: > Thanks for that link. I agree that the *integration* of mail with other > distributed social media protocols makes a lot of sense (network effects!). > > I think it might also be interesting for other FSW people. > > Cheers, > Andreas > --- > > Simon Tennant: >> This poppped up on Hacker News and is a very interesting idea. I'm guessing >> you could bolt it onto email and hope for the best. Better yet, we have >> channels and ATOM formatted posts. >> >> https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#1-email-metadata >> >> I liked this example: >> >> - receive an invoice? it is added to your accounting software >> >> We get this for free in buddycloud because of the atom container type. >> >> Nice nice. >> >> I'll make sure to list this as a benefit on the bc website. >> >> S. >>
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