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1. Clay Loveless Abraham Williams , Ed Finkler

   @funkatron @abraham I'm a statusnet/identi.ca n00b. Has anyone tried taking the status.net/open-source stuff to decentralized deployments?

   about a year ago from Spaz at San Francisco, California, United States
   • Samat K Jain

     @claylo what do you mean "to decentralized deployments"?

     about a year ago
   • Clay Loveless Samat K Jain

     @samatjain part of Twitter's problem is that it's centrally controlled. Wondering if status.net/identi.ca is a way to get away from that.

     about a year ago
   • Samat K Jain

     @claylo That is precisely one of StatusNet's goals. Still a tad shaky, but getting there (protocol info): http://ostatus.org/

     about a year ago
   • Ed Finkler Evan Prodromou , Zach Copley , Abraham Williams

     @claylo @abraham I… think? I would talk to @evan or @zach on that

     about a year ago
   • Clay Loveless Samat K Jain

     @samatjain ah, excellent. thanks for the link, and the welcome! :)

     about a year ago
   • Samat K Jain

     @claylo Can download StatusNet, setup your own hosting, and subscribe/send messages to others. Others that've done it: http://ur1.ca/2rkdk

     about a year ago
   • Samat K Jain

     @claylo There's also Posterous/Tumblr/etc federation via PubSubHubHub, but I don't know details and AFAIK it's very fragile

     about a year ago
   • Abraham Williams OpenID , Samat K Jain

     @samatjain @claylo an awesome endgoal but similar UX issues to !openid

     about a year ago
   • Ed Finkler Abraham Williams

     @claylo @abraham actually I'm 100% sure of that. you can set it up on your own domain and subscribe to folks on other installs and such

     about a year ago
   • Samat K Jain Abraham Williams

     @abraham @claylo Not sure "similar" is the right word, but yes there are many UX issues

     about a year ago
   • Abraham Williams Samat K Jain

     @samatjain @claylo how is it not similar? you view someones profile, hit subscribe and have to enter *your* profile url...

     about a year ago
   • Samat K Jain Abraham Williams

     @abraham @claylo That's getting caught up in how things are implemented ATM. The main problem: service discovery

     about a year ago
   • Samat K Jain Abraham Williams

     @abraham @clayo "In the future" you should enter someone's e-mail address in your app, and WebFinger/similar protocols lookup profiles

     about a year ago
   • Ed Finkler Abraham Williams , Samat K Jain

     @abraham @samatjain @claylo yeah, it's similar UX-wise. as in not friendly to humans. but us, we're good.

     about a year ago
   • Samat K Jain Abraham Williams

     @abraham @claylo You know, my bad… Thinking about it, it's more similar than I thought…

     about a year ago
   • Clay Loveless Ed Finkler , Samat K Jain

     @samatjain @funkatron @abraham It does smack a lot of OpenID, which is unfortunate.

     about a year ago
   • Abraham Williams Samat K Jain

     @samatjain @claylo that will be amazing when it happens :)

     about a year ago
   • Samat K Jain

     @claylo Ehh, I hate the hate #OpenID gets… OpenID's UX problems are solvable…

     about a year ago
   • Samat K Jain

     @claylo It's real problems: (1) Most people misunderstand it; (2) Site operators don't have reason to implement it well (and they DON'T!)

     about a year ago
   • Clay Loveless Samat K Jain

     @samatjain do you have a link on the solutions? I gave up on OpenID a long time ago. Agree it's potentially solvable; never saw proof

     about a year ago
   • Clay Loveless Samat K Jain

     @samatjain referring to Status.net or OpenID ... or both?

     about a year ago
   • Samat K Jain

     @claylo No… saw it on a W3 wiki somewhere. W3 appears (mostly) to moved onto WebID, though

     about a year ago
   • Samat K Jain

     @claylo OpenID. When OStatus/StatusNet become mainstream, hopefully it can avoid the same PR issues

     about a year ago