As Google Wave helps to demonstrate, the valuable-to-users functionality of Facebook *could* be provided via federated protocols, with individual and small groups of users in control of their own servers.
For example, the complaint was that Facebook doesn't let you enter an arbitrary XMPP server in your contacts. Well, users should be free to study the code, find that bug, run their fixed version, and share their fixed version. I think that this is something we in *this* community need to take on by direct action. That is, we can only get so far pontificating about what a company like Facebook is doing wrong. We can get further by building the federated alternatives. -t On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 16:28 -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote: > Hunger wrote: > > “Web 2.0″ is that it is a step back in many ways; even AOL — who, of > > course, controlled much of Web 1.0 — let you send email to non-AOL users. > Actually, for a long time they didn't. It took a lot of pressure from > their users to allow email in and out of their system. > > -Evan > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.autonomo.us > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.autonomo.us http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/discuss
