[Freedombox-discuss] Diaspora becoming a community project

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 29 August 2012 09:40, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Yeah but tent is about protocols only, right?
>
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Ramana Kumar <ramana at member.fsf.org>wrote:
>
>> Tent is also worth a look. http://tent.io/
>> They say it is "actually decentralised" as opposed to just federated.
>>
>
The Diaspora question has come up on this list a few times.  You may want
to do a search for previous feedback.

Totally love the vision of a decentralized social network, and Diaspora are
awesome at selling that vision.  But when you take some time to wade thru
the technical details Diaspora isnt necessarily an ideal match for a single
hosted profile running on a plug server.

Tent is actually pretty decent.  The big difference with tent is that they
worked out that if you align identifiers using standards (HTTP, REST, JSON)
most of the federation drops out for free.  Most web 2.0ish other systems
(eg. Diaspora), have not quite grokked this, which generally means having
to create new protocols.  Tent has got this point and is decnetralized in
the sense that freedombox can and should be, but still is very young.  One
to watch I think.

FBX does need a lowish footprint, system that can be distributed and keyed
off a web server, integrate GPG and ideally chat over IM.  Friendica and
Buddycloud do look good with a bit of tweeking, perhaps.

I think Nick has a pretty good handle on the social networking side, and is
already integrating relevant packages into the images.


>
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 4:52 AM, J David Eisenberg <
>> jdavid.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Announcement is here:
>>> >
>>> http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/2012/08/27/announcement-diaspora-will-now-be-a-community-project.html
>>> >
>>> > I would say this makes Diaspora an obvious candidate to be a
>>> > major component of the Box.
>>> >
>>> > I am not claiming that it is necessarily the social networking
>>> > software we should use, but it seems clear the Box must
>>> > support some social network and that this one is worth a
>>> > look.
>>>
>>> From a standpoint of ease of setup, I would suggest either Friendica
>>> (http://friendica.com) or Buddycloud (http://buddycloud.org). The last
>>> time I installed diaspora, it required a very large number of gems,
>>> which indicated a fairly large footprint. Buddycloud's use of XMPP, an
>>> established standard, is a big plus.
>>>
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