Re: Federation protocols

On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>wrote:

>
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Simon Tennant <simon@buddycloud.com<mailto:
>> simon@buddycloud.com>> wrote:
>>
>>      2. and what we can be doing to a) understand their needs b) offer
>>     an open, hopefully federated, alternative that solves their needs
>>     quicker, easier and in a more open way.
>>     3. ???
>>     4. (a higher chance of success).
>>
>>     This could be things like federated media sharing or quick ways to
>>     add a social layer to their mobile app or game.
>>
>>
> Personally, I'm still trying to figure out why people migrated from USENET
> to Facebook.  There was a time when USENET was the dominant form of social
> networking (other than email lists), and was accessible directly, from AOL,
> from Google Groups - i.e., it was (and still is) federated.  Easier to
> filter too, at least with a good newsreader.



>From my perspective, it was a number of things, but mainly accessibility. I
remember when it was a standard part of the package when you signed up with
an internet provider. That hasn't been the case for a long time, at least
not for the majority of providers. Free services on the internet dried up,
so eventually the only way you could access the USENET was through a paid
service. From what I remember it wasn't exactly trivial to maintain your
own newserver either.