Tent v0.1 - Hackdot

Re:Tent v0.1 by joshaidan on Friday September 21, 2012 @04:01PM (#4555471)

Yes, all valid points. And yes, particularly as a transport protocol it would, like other protocols lead to decentralized services. But perhaps I should clarify a bit and say that, HTML and the web browser have led the Internet into a place with lots of centralized services.

If we see HTTP as a transport protocol like UDP or TCP, then yes you're very right. But if we look at HTML and web browsers becoming denominate applications of the Internet, then I believe that's how a lot of this centralization happened.

If you look at the web as a series of servers, sure it's decentralized. But contained on those servers are a lot of centralized services, i.e. Facebook, YouTube, etc.

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Re:Tent v0.1 by 18pfsmt on Friday September 21, 2012 @04:53PM (#4555722)

You should check out buddycloud.org. I'm not in any way connected to it, but I saw it mentioned on HN a couple months back. It is based on XMPP for the backend, but the documentation indicates a webclient, as well as mobile clients. Their documentation seems quite extensive and it was part of Google Summer of Code this past summer.

I'd be interested in hearing other people's take unless it involves "XMPP is too complicated."

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Re:Tent v0.1 by MatthewPhillips on Friday September 21, 2012 @05:34PM (#4555953)

I don't follow how HTML leads to centralized services. Explanation?

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