Server administrator & accounts on shared instances (+ToS)

Ahoy o/

I just noticed on User Stories page comments from Ben
"-1. What server administrator? This is distributed, There may be none.
 — Ben Roberts"
e.g.
https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API/User_stories#Contest_content_report


I understand that IndieWeb community focuses on specific scenario where
everyone hosts one's own account. At the same time I think that here we
also take into account scenarios where one instance, managed by server
admin(s), provides accounts for many people. We see it out in a wild
with Diaspora, Friendica, Pump.io, MediaGoblin etc.

Could we clarify + document that we stay on the same page which
*includes* IndieWeb style of deployments but doesn't put such constraint
on everyone? Not sure where to put it on a wiki, maybe something like
"Deployment Consideration" page?

BTW I also included in my exprimental drafts[1][2], concept of Terms of
Service, which will come relevant here and will differ a lot from what
we know in ecosystem with handful of services dominating ecosystem and
expecting people to actually read ToS.

Cheers!

[1] http://w3c-social.github.io/soc-glossary/
[2] http://w3c-social.github.io/soc-arch/

Received on Sunday, 22 February 2015 16:50:15 UTC