DiSo and identi.ca/laconica

[Steve Ivy]

Hi folks,

I've been chewing on what Identica/Laconica means to DiSo. Obviously
to me, there is important shared conceptual DNA there. We've all been
looking for a decentralized Twitter for a while, and laconica in
particular means we can move microblogging to the edges. I think that
we can agree that this is completely in the spirit of DiSo.

So when I ask what laconica means to DiSo, I'm asking in the
implementation sense. Laconica is an application, more than a plugin
or add-on for one of our (current) target platforms. Any thoughts on
how we might go about integrating microblogging in general, and
laconica in particular, into the DiSo "stack"?

Evan, I'd love you thoughts as well!

Cheers,

--Steve

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[Josh Patterson]

Steve,
I think that decentralized microblogging definitely has some relation
to the project; however, the magnitude of that relationship depends on
how much the developers want to bite off, and how soon.

There is more and more buzzing of the "edges" term floating around,
and regardless of how people are using that, I think we'll end up
seeing a whole lot more development of services that cut out the
middleman and find endpoints via XRDS-S types of resources on the
users behalf, routing "messages" to those endpoints. This will happen
in a way that makes more and more sites/apps "woven" together, coupled
together --- but loosely (see also, Oreilly:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/05/microhoo-corporate-penis-envy.html ).

I see the decentralized twitter work, whether it be the SIOC version
of the identi.ca version, of this same class, and in some ways a pre-
cursor to this type of decentralized message passing mechanic.

That view being setup, I say these things to illustrate that this is
an interesting direction "in general", and DiSo will probably be
influenced by this model at some point, anyway. That, and
microblogging probably will replace text messaging (with the advent of
iphone type devices) and irc type apps, at least supplant them in some
ways. Given its strong userbase attachment, and viral nature, I see a
microblogging plugin as something that can do nothing but make the
diso platform more attractive as time goes on, especially if it
already participates in the existing microblogging data ecosystem.

Of you could just implement it and call it "The DiSo Wall". =)

Josh Patterson
http://jpatterson.floe.tv

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