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Re:GNU Social - diaspora already has a clone that's usable a... by mattl on Friday August 20, 2010 @01:52AM (#1619640)
I'm not making the argument from a technical perspective, but from a cultural one. Culturally, this stuff works best if there are bazillions of instances out there, not thirty.

PHP offers that, and I don't think I can name anything else that I can say that about.

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Re:GNU Social - diaspora already has a clone that's usable a... by Joeboy on Friday August 20, 2010 @04:15AM (#1619838)
IMO if this thing is worth anything the value is in the protocols, not the code. I hope you're envisaging other implementations.

On vaguely which subject, is there some documentation of the protocols anywhere? I had a quick look on the site and couldn't see anything like that.

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Re:GNU Social - diaspora already has a clone that's usable a... by mattl on Friday August 20, 2010 @09:15AM (#1620287)
http://ostatus.org/sites/default/files/ostatus-1.0-draft-1-s...
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