The Diaspora* networks are in open alpha, and it appears that developers are working on an statusnet/twitter like api.
Because its licensed under aGPL, anyone can instantiate 'pods' (network nodes). Most of these federate. A user would have to choose both the Diaspora* service, and then in an "add accounts" menu, a pod, given by the domain name where that pod is hosted. There's a list of mostly public pods at the wiki on their github repo. https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Community-supported-pods. If this list could become a discovery service that gwibber could access, it could offer that list to users under the "add accounts" functionality, so a user could add the pod he belongs to, without needing to request gwibber developers to add a separate plugin for each particular pod. I don't know how far along the developers are to specifying their interface / API, but it would be natural for them to work with you in doing so. Free software network user-agents should support free software network services. And vice versa. Thats what people living in the free world want. :) Why should Diaspora* be contemplating iPhone apps and Gwibber be contemplating G+? Well, I suppose there're some good reasons why. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gwibber in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/739368 Title: diaspora support Status in Gwibber: New Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gwibber Diaspora is the wildly successful new social network on the block, fully open source and crowd funded and it respects privacy. It sounds like just the kind of choice we should be able to bring to the user. So consider this a request for Diaspora support, if an invite is needed I will be happy to provide. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: gwibber 2.91.91.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.36-generic 2.6.38 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Mar 21 10:21:41 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110314) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=da:pt_BR:en LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=da_DK.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gwibber UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/739368/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
