@brennannovak @ablaze @daltonc Why not build off of StatusNet? Seems like the problem has largely been solved by them already.
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@brennannovak I guess I don't see the decentralization/federation in app.net's proposal.
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@aaronpk @brennannovak Okay, so it's a realtime feed IAAS-type thing with a social network as a facade. I'm not seeing #indieweb relevance…?
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@brennannovak @BarnabyWalters I guess I don't see the app•net :: git analogy, it seems like they are just making a proprietary service.
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@brennannovak @BarnabyWalters but Twitter was never built on an existing distributed protocol. The closest analogy would be RSS/Atom feeds
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@brennannovak @BarnabyWalters That's a good point, and is also the reason Wordpress has worked so well for the #IndieWeb.
Jul 29, 2012 · 7:39 PM UTC
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