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What I said in comments on the other story (http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1344138 http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1344138): "When I last thought abou
by WorkerBee 16y ago
What I said in comments on the other story (http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1344138 http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1344138):
"When I last thought about it, I became convinced that we don't need an single implementation, we need standards for multiple implementations to interact. Stuff like RSS, OpenId, OAuth, etc. It's a lot less glamorous to work to these, and to try to push them forward, but it's a lot more useful."
- wmf 16y agoAfter Diaspora works, it should be easy enough to standardize its protocol. Fixing a non-working, prematurely-standardized protocol is likely to cost more.
- WorkerBee 16y agoBased on other experiences that's "if", not "after". But no, it's not easy, unless things like OAuth and OpenId implementations are easy to you, which puts you in a very select group. What about all the other distributed social media experiments, which have been around longer, done more, and are working with established protocols? I still think that this is the real way forward.