Re: [Social-discuss] Federation

[Ted Smith]

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 01:20 -0400, Matt Lee wrote:
> On 08/24/2009 07:55 PM, Ted Smith wrote:
> 
> > The last I heard, Social was going to extend the Open MicroBlogging
> > protocol for social networking, thus making Social federated in the same
> > way Laconica is. 
> 
> Not sure. But if someone writes it like that, then maybe.
> 
> Personally, I'd be in favor of making a seperate thing, the Libre Social
> protocol or something.

I'd *love* to bottom-line this, but I have no idea what the primitives
in this should be, since I've never used a social networking site to any
great extent since they've all been proprietary. I like the idea of a
LiSP as well. 
> 
> > Personally, I'm on the fence as to whether or not this is a good idea,
> > but maybe it is. Time will tell.
> 
> Extending OMB, or Social in general? If you're referring to Social, you
> could *try* being a little more positive ;)
> 
Hah, extending OMB. Social is something I've been wishing for for years.
Given how libre.fm took off so quickly, I've got really high hopes for
this project, and hopefully I'll be able to contribute somehow (I do
systems programming mostly, so I'm a fish out of water in this PHP
business).

This is a big thing we're doing here, people. Let's make sure it's done
right.

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