>From what I can tell there are a few things that jabber could do to make decentralized social networking a reality. 1. It appears I can do some sort of broadcast, if I had a client that would agregate these into a newsfeed I believe it'd be the same as the facebook newsfeed. 2. It appears I can publish data to a jabber server and have other people browse it. This could be used for interests/descriptions, etc. All the stuff social networking does. Now if contacts could be given different levels of access control then the same account could be used for a wide variety of people leading to point 3. 3. To be on a social network one would add a special buddy or service that would be permitted to index either the published data, or hashes of the public data (The hashes would prevent a server from data mining easily.) You could then search the directory and ask to add someone as a contact.
I believe the above three items in effect replecate facebook client side. Thoughts? Questions? ideas?
