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I don't think it's important whether Google+ failed or whether Facebook declines or not. The fundamental failure is by computer science or the IETF that there
by usr1106 7y ago
I don't think it's important whether Google+ failed or whether Facebook declines or not.
The fundamental failure is by computer science or the IETF that there is no open standard for federated social networking. Some might say social networking is out of scope for academic research. But why was SMTP not out of scope when it was invented?
- phicoh 7y agoThe is an open standard for messaging (XMPP). That didn't prevent Google and Facebook from starting on XMPP and then closing it off. There is ActivityPub (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub) but it's unlikely that any of the big parties is going to adopt it.
- pessimizer 7y ago> Some might say social networking is out of scope for academic research. And you wouldn't even say that at this point, with the open-access movement and academics trying to think of alternative ways to do peer review and curation openly.