On 7 December 2012 16:38, Melvin Carvalho <
address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 7 December 2012 16:30, Evan Prodromou <
address@hidden> wrote:
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>> That's an interesting position, considering that there are 2-4 OOM more
>> people on the OStatus network than on every other federated social network
>> put together.
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>> What's your position?
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> Facebook has it right, tent is almost there, OStatus has it wrong. Many of
> the constituent technologies of OStatus have been described as 'fails' by
> the authors, tho this is I think is too strong.
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> Build a federated network based on http identifiers, rather than, trying to
> breathe life into webmail style identifiers. Tolerance in the identity
> space is what allows scaling.
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> This was the advice given to GNU Social when Matt Lee met with Tim
> Berners-Lee. It's as true today as it was then.
Really? Almost everyone else in the identity world disagrees! In