Re: Federation protocols

Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote:
> 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.
>

I beg to differ on both points:

- IM and IRC are used in similar ways, by lots of people (I can't tell 
you how many development teams I'm aware of who leave an IM or IRC 
session open all the time) - they're both shared typing spaces

- an awful lot of people seem to be using 0MQ instead of XMPP

-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra

Received on Sunday, 2 June 2013 17:02:19 UTC