Re: [buddycloud-dev] email metadata

Dnia piątek, 26 lipca 2013 09:29:48 Melvin Carvalho pisze:
> On 26 July 2013 09:12, hpl <hpl1989@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> +1 for integration of email

+over9000

The fun thing is that once libre social networks integrate e-mail, they will 
become, on some very basic level, interoperable.

inb4 "interoperability of different social networks is impossiburu" thread

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