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

[Matt Lee]

On 03/04/2010 08:39 PM, Ted Smith wrote:

>> We have the most to gain by focusing now on the immediate need for a
>> Free replacement for Facebook, creating along the way an enthusiastic
>> developer following that will help bring the full promise of GNU
>> Social to fruition. To ignore that need, or treat it as second-class
>> to the need for a framework or protocol for Free social networks, is
>> to forfeit a lot of potential momentum. 
> 
> I absolutely agree.

The problem with this, is as ever, people are going to constantly ask us
why we're not just using one of dozen or more other existing free
software projects.

Creating the protocol, which what Ian and Shaun's time would be much
better spent working on, means that each of those systems can
communicate with each other, and we don't need to worry about making one
really awesome site.

Treat this problem like a mail or IM client -- if we can figure out how
to talk to each other, then we can each worry about all the cool
features we'd like to see later.

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