Thank you very much TH for responding to my request to comment on the issue :)
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak <[email protected]>wrote: > Okay, could anybody please explain to me why do we need Yet Another > Social Network Protocol? > I don't know. Is there a list of all of them, maintained in some canonical place? Maybe it would be good to put up a site that lists social networking protocols and compares them, so we can quickly figure out which one to choose to focus efforts on. I thought tent looked good, but I haven't done any rational analysis. > > Instead of focusing on a bikeshedding issue[1] (as I believe the > licensing for a new and still unused potentially libre social network > is one indeed), I really do think we should rather focus on the big > picture. And that is: > > There is not libre, decentralized, federated social network that is > actually a threat to walled gardens. > OK. Good point. > > And here's why: > 1. network effect > 2. fragmentation on the libre side of things > > ad.1.) that's something we can fight (as suggested in the other > thread), once we tackle 2. > OK. > > ad.2.) the first thing we can do to tackle this is agreeing on a > single protocol. > OK, which one? How should we decide? Who are 'we'? Does it matter if we make a bad choice? I.e. is it more important to agree on something than to agree on the right thing? (Since maybe we can make it more right later.) > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshedding > -- > Pozdrawiam > Michał "rysiek" Woźniak > > Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania >
