So this federation thing is really great. Different communities can each have their own laconica/ openmicroblogging sites and still talk to each other.
Subscriptions are strictly one-way things: I can send a message directed to a laconica user with @user, either publicly or privately, if he's on the same laconica "isle" as me... but I have no way to get in touch with a user on another laconica "isle" even if I subscribe to him/her. The remote software, be it laconica or something else, could tell the user I subscribed to him, but that's strictly an "internal" thing, I don't know if it's happening or not, and I can't write even a small text in there. Practical example: I have my laconica site, as you know. gouki told me the validator of the it_IT translation is http://identi.ca/milo and I subscribed to him, but I have no way to send him anything - short of making an account on identi.ca which should just be what federation is trying to avoid. There should be a way to send a short message directed to a non- subscriber on a remote laconica site. For example, I could tell my own laconica that I want to write to http://identi.ca/milo, or I could go on identi.ca and enter a private message and tell the remote laconica that the sender is http://micro.fit-factor.net/luca, maybe with a CAPTCHA to void automated spamming bots. Then the openmicroblogging protocol should take care of dropping my message in milo's inbox along with a link to my profile. I seem to understand that microblogging is born more with a publisher/ subscriber model of mostly one-way communication. Microblogging is probably born with twitter which explicitly says it's for "... exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" - so the question is implicitly hard-coded and people just send in the answer, this doesn't strictly require two-way messaging between users. But I think we can all see that In Real Life things go a little different and I, at least, as an user feel the need to be able to "finger" another user. What do you think about this? -- Luca Lesinigo _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
