Well, not if all of the software packages add support for open standards and make federation an explicit goal. I just went to the BuddyPress IRC channel on freenode (#buddypress) and said as much. I think that with the evil Facebook EULA update now is a good time to push for Facebook replacements, which requires decentralized services that are able to federate together. I think I might blog that :)
~Nelson~ On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Rich Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Sadly, the abundance of these is the very reason they will all fail. > > Open standards are the only standards. > > R > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Stephen Paul Weber > <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Somebody claiming to be Nelson Pavlosky wrote: >>> I personally think that BuddyPress <http://buddypress.org/>, a social >>> networking modification to Wordpress MU, has a lot of potential, and I >>> think that if they add in federation / cross-site communication like >>> Identica/Laconica it could be a good Facebook replacement. >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Gabriel Joel Perez >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > In the past many members of Free Culture have expressed interest on the >>> > idea >>> > of a decentralized social network. Well there seems to be an organization >>> > working on a protocol and implementation for such a thing, >>> > http://noserub.com/ . It looks really interesting, I really hope it >>> > catches >>> > on. >> >> Another good project working on this stuff is <http://diso-project.org> >> >> - -- >> Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma >> Please see <http://singpolyma.net> for how I prefer to be contacted. >> Don't toppost! <http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAkmcLw4ACgkQ6oSxepE9BOtdyQCghGhOwioXqmTLjbCDpSBzTQlx >> iA0An2cbtr0muUqocnKLvyNhgkr/hgBE >> =tEyU >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
