Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?

[Matt Lee]

On 03/28/2010 10:59 AM, Adrian Thurston wrote:

> My name is Adrian and for a long while I have been interested in
> distributed social networking. I'm the person behind DSNP, which has
> been mentioned here before. DSNP has been a great learning experience
> for me, and fun too. At one point I had my immediate family using my
> 2-node network of social-networking sites.
> 
> Unfortunately, it has grown to the point where it's too much work for me
> to do alone. Either I must redirect my efforts to another project with
> momentum behind it, or stop development. I'm hoping that GNU-Social can
> be that other project. For that to work there needs to be some harmony
> of design ideals. So here I present mine:
> 
> Separating a social application into backend and frontend is the right
> approach.
> 
> The backend is basically a message distribution system and associated
> database that is aware of social concepts. I think we should not be
> afraid of designing and implementing a new protocol. A new protocol will
> give the maximum freedom to make what we need. Piggybacking on other
> protocols means also piggybacking on the design goals and limitations of
> those protocols.
> 
> The frontnend provides the user's view into the social space. For this
> you use a language like PHP.

What's the backend? The backend needs to be PHP too, because the user
needs to be able to run their own backend, on their own $1 hosting account.

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