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I don't understand why all the succer overpowered social networks like friendster and myspace still try to foster their own walled garden. Why don't they put t
by jsilence 12y ago
I don't understand why all the succer overpowered social networks like friendster and myspace still try to foster their own walled garden.
Why don't they put their effort behind a social network protocol that works across their platforms?
That way we could some day have a decentralized social network ecosystem that works just like email. I can choose a social network provider and still interact with other persons regardless on which platform they are.
The networks would then compete featurewise.
- saurik 12y agoHow soon we forget OpenSocial? Which MySpace was a big proponent of? (I guess not quite "distributed", but definitely "federated"; I definitely think it was in the spirit of your comment.)
- pjc50 12y agoInteresting, I never knew of it in the first place. It seems Atlassian have picked it up and are trying to make groupware out of it. ("groupware" = "social networking with co-workers that you have to use")
- pjc50 12y agodecentralized social network ecosystem that works just like email Arguably we have that and it's called email. More seriously, a "social network" needs "draw-in" and barriers to exit in order to exist at all. It's not an organic thing. Left to their own devices people don't broadcast their personal information in neat advertiser-friendly packets.