The Social Web is not federated

pump-io / pump.io

Social server with an ActivityStreams API

http://pump.io/

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The Social Web is not federated #1

Open evanp opened 12 years ago

evanp commented 12 years ago

Social networks are isolated and disconnected. People put their creative works, their social graph, and their personal connections into services with dubious terms of service. Service providers depend on the network effect to prevent healthy competition. Gigantic user databases are a one-stop-shopping target for hackers and spy agencies.

We must federate the social web.

OpenCode commented 11 years ago

This is a mission impossible! Federate the web means insert society as Facebook or Twitter in the some universe of Pump.io or friendica or Diaspora. Is it possibile for you? Friendica and Diaspora have tried to create a federation and are failing slowly. Red is a new project that snubs all other. GNUSocial changre strucure every month.

Do you think you can create a federation knowing this?

mama21mama commented 11 years ago

OpenCode you see the empty half empty. Die identi.ca and multiplies as gremlin. http://cut07.tk/cdg

csolisr commented 11 years ago

I guess this will finish as awfully as Ubuntu's bug number one. That is, its objective was to "defeat" a certain brand or system, not to make an ethical change in society. I suggest to change the name of this bug to something like "The web depends upon centralized, non-free servers".

evanp commented 11 years ago

@csolisr There's no named company in this bug. There is no defeat involved; it's about making connections, not crushing competition. Federating the existing social networks would close this bug.

evanp commented 11 years ago

@OpenCode Going faster than the speed of light is impossible. Connecting social networks is feasible and achievable.