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by EGreg 2891 days ago
You can like it, but I know that protocols are driven by large commercial projects, not the other way around.

oAuth was pioneered by Twitter and took off BECAUSE they had clout. I have seen FOAF, Personas and tons of other things fall by the wayside without adoption.
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rainbowmverse 2891 days ago
You and I are talking about completely different things. I don't care about numbers or prospective adoption of a private company's protocol and platform. I'm talking about what I can do now. What I'm already using it for. What's on the horizon. What's not going to happen. It's popular enough for my needs. It's funded. It's in active development.

No matter how popular your protocol gets, it's still your protocol. I have no interest in it. I can go back to Twitter if I want to have my social connections locked into someone else's platform.

I have been burned by enough companies that play up open source and development ecosystems, then close up when it's no longer convenient. Your own example of Twitter was built on developers making tools for it. Who makes apps for Twitter now but marketing companies? Virtually no one.

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EGreg 2891 days ago
Twitter has centralized servers.

Wordpress is used by 1/3 of all websites in the world.

Our thing is like Wordpress not Twitter.

So while it doesn’t currently support the latest protocol du jour (XMPP? FriendFeed? FOAF? ActivityPub? PubSubHubbub? Scuttlebutt?) it actually WORKS and people can use it to actually build apps today that are on par with what they get in Facebook.

Like I said if all we wanted was to have a microblog we would be done very soon. As it is that is 1% of the functionality you need for realtime collaboration, offline notifications etc.

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rainbowmverse 2891 days ago
You're not trying to understand me. You keep repeating irrelevant or misinformed points.

You go make your thing. I'll keep enjoying the platform I'm on.

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EGreg 2890 days ago
So you just commented to say you enjoy the platform you’re on, and therefore WE missed the boat and no one needs our platform?

I guess I don’t understand your point ultimately. Just because YOU like something specific for your needs doesn’t mean there isn’t a large opportunity for something that addresses a totally different need.

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