Re: [Social-discuss] What should GNU social be?

[Petr Viktorin]

I don't think a Facebook bridge is something for a GNU project to make.
This is perfect for a plugin. Someone'll write it sooner or later anyway,
if Social takes off.
But it definitely shouldn't go into the Social codebase: for one, it couldn't
be tested, and thus developed/maintained, without a FB account.



On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 01:39, Blaise Alleyne <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 10-03-04 02:38 PM, Ryan Prior wrote:
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>>  On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Matt Lee<address@hidden>   wrote:
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>>>  Should GNU social be a straight up replacement for existing social
>>>  networks? I don't think so.
>>>
>>>  Should GNU social include the creation of a protocol for decentralized,
>>>  encrypted communication between social networks? I think it should.
>>>  . . .
>>>  We may decide to create a simple, Facebook-type UI as a demo for
>>>  one of the possible applications of GNU social, but let's also consider
>>>  the future and other ideas for social software.
>>>
>>  Hey Matt,
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>>  I agree with you totally on your second point, but I think that we do
>>  need to create a straight-up replacement for existing social networks.
>>
>>  The #1 thing that I want to bring out of GNU Social is a response to
>>  the question "What else should I use?". If I see somebody frustrated
>>  with Facebook and have a conversation about how it's harmful to trust
>>  all your social data to a closed network, that conversation can only
>>  go so far: whereas I can suggest to a disgruntled Windows or Mac user
>>  that GNU offers a great alternative, I have no such offering for the
>>  unhappy Facebook/Twitter/Myspace/LinkedIn user.
>>
>>
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> I agree with both of you, in that GNU Social should be so much more than
> a Facebook replacement, but that a Facebook replacement may be
> necessary... but we can't underestimate the social challenges of
> creating a replacement that don't exist elsewhere. Daisycha.in might
> give us a free software social networking service to use, but it doesn't
> solve the problem of communicating with other people if other people
> aren't on Daisycha.in. See Identi.ca/Twitter... I'm very active on
> Identi.ca, but I also feel the need to maintain a presence on Twitter
> because there are so many people I want to communicate with who aren't
> using Identi.ca.
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> So, my first comment is just that we can't understate or underestimate
> the challenge of the network effect in replacing social services.
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> A question arises though... To what extent would we be willing to
> connect with other proprietary web services, to set up a bridge (in the
> way to emacs is available on Windows, or that Identi.ca has a Twitter
> bridge)? I'm not proposing this, because I haven't thought it through,
> I'm just raising the question -- would we entertain the idea of creating
> a Facebook app, or using Facebook Connect, to allow someone to bring
> their Facebook activity over to a new, free social networking service?
> To connect with friends on a proprietary web service, to the extent that
> it's possible via their APIs?
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