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Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?
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Matt Lee |
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Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework? |
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Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:46:59 -0400 |
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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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- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?, (continued)
- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?, Henry Litwhiler, 2010/03/28
- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?, Sean Corbett, 2010/03/28
- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?, Henry Litwhiler, 2010/03/28
- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?, Jason Self, 2010/03/28
- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?, Ted Smith, 2010/03/28
- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?, Jason Self, 2010/03/28
- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?, Ted Smith, 2010/03/28
- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?, Carlo von Loesch, 2010/03/28
- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?, Adrian Thurston, 2010/03/28
- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?, Ted Smith, 2010/03/28
- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?,
Matt Lee <=
- Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?, Adrian Thurston, 2010/03/28