Re: [Social-discuss] Future of GNU social

[Rob Myers]

On 05/30/2010 05:39 PM, Ted Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 23:27 +0100, Rob Myers wrote:
> > OStatus and StatusNet fit the original federated server idea, and were
> > the example that I personally had in mind for that.
>
> Originally, I had the same idea, but over time I became convinced that
> only locally-running code could really provide adequate privacy and
> freedom.

You can run your own federated server, and GLAMP stack, locally. I agree 
that we want to control out own computing resources, I think that's one 
of the main points of rms's SaaS talk.

Eben Moglen's talk on cloud freedom shows a very good way of doing this 
- run our won *dedicated* computing resources in the form of our own 
"wall wart" server.

I make no great claims for GLAMP/HTTP other than that it's a widely 
available, well-understood stack and that we at least know what's wrong 
with it and what we'll have to address. ;-)

> Also, does StatusNet support XMPP as a server-to-server transport, or
> just as a UI transport (a way for the user to get stuff to the server)?
> It was my impression it was just a UI transport.

I am just getting back up to speed on StatusNet so I don't know, you may 
well be right. But if we can help improve StatusNet inter-server 
communication that's a definite win.

- Rob.