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You list two open chat protocols and two proprietary services based around rich media chat. Despite bells and whistles, these are all fundamentally about chat a
by niftich 10y ago
You list two open chat protocols and two proprietary services based around rich media chat. Despite bells and whistles, these are all fundamentally about chat and presence.
A contemporary social network implies a profile, an asymmetric social graph between users, personal status history, an aggregate friend feed, and a content management system where users can upload and share media.
Rich media chat apps can approximate some of these usecases but they aren't the same thing.
- spdustin 10y agoWith respect, I disagree; IRC with a bouncer and a bot would serve those functions handily. The other chat platforms also have mechanisms for groups, sharing files and metadata, and creating social "graphs" via the use of channels. I submit that they're no worse than the options listed. What makes Twitter better than the niche social graph/network tools presented? People are actually using it.