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From: | Evan Prodromou |
Subject: | Re: [Social] Fwd: GNU/social legacy |
Date: | Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:32:31 -0500 |
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On 12-12-11 05:30 AM, Melvin Carvalho
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Also: it is intellectually dishonest to associate Facebook Open Graph URLs with "identity". Users never see those URLs. Users never interact with those URLs. What's that got to do with scalability? The vast majority of user accounts on the Web are tied to a hidden email address as the primary identity. Also, this has nothing to do with scalability. I don't think that word means what you think it means. So far, the hierarchical username + domain system of email has proved incredibly resilient and insanely scalable -- with the possible exception of the tightness around the limited number of TLDs, which makes getting yourfavoritename.com kind of expensive. That's something all DNS-based identities have problems with, however. -Evan -- Evan Prodromou, CEO and Founder, StatusNet Inc. 1124 rue Marie-Anne Est #32, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2J 2B7 E: address@hidden P: +1-514-554-3826 |
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