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Can you name some successful interoperable protocols used by social networks that allow for meaningful innovation and updates? All I can think of is Agora* (whi
by x220 8y ago
Can you name some successful interoperable protocols used by social networks that allow for meaningful innovation and updates? All I can think of is Agora* (which no one uses) and IRC (which hasn't added nontrivial features in a very, very long time).
- eitland 8y agoWhatever protocol (Ostatus?) connects my write.as account with my mastodon account and everyone else seems to be enabling meaningful innovation now. And between your examples there's also XMPP.
- daveid 8y agoIt's ActivityPub, not OStatus!
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoWhatever protocol Facebook is using internally to interoperate between their thousands of servers, with some additional authentication and authorization layers put in? I mean, not sure how sensible that would really be, but I think it's worth considering that Facebook is not some PHP script with a small local MySQL database behind it either, but rather a massive distributed system in itself, even if under the administrative control of a single entity.
- wmf 8y agoOne would assume that Facebook's internal protocols are constantly upgraded to enable new features and those upgrades would be much slower if industry politics got in the way.
- feanaro 8y agoYes, Matrix <https://matrix.org> https://matrix.org>.