Re: Federation protocols

Dnia sobota, 1 czerwca 2013 o 23:33:12 Miles Fidelman napisał(a):
> Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote:
> > And this *is* the case with IM and social networking right now. At
> > least with IM the whole FLOSS community stands by XMPP -- this gives
> > at least *some* hope to actually take on the heayweights. Libre social
> > networking is fatally broken right now, in my opinion, due to lack of
> > interoperability. Hence, it is fragmented and unable to compete with
> > TwitBook+. For example, it isn't really that hard for me to convince
> > new users to at least try a libre social network. The hard part is
> > choosing the network! How am I to explain them that they do not talk
> > to each other? This is where we lose them.
> 
> Not even true there.  At least judging from the number of projects that
> use IRC as a gathering point.

IM is not IRC. I use both and use them for different things. There is some 
functional overlap, to be sure, but these are different kinds of services.

What I was saying there is: as far as IM is concerned, the whole FLOSS worlds 
stands by XMPP. And that is precisely what we should try to achieve with 
federated social web.

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Pozdrawiam
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak

Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania