Re:Kevin Systrom On Pulling Twitter Cards Integration
by riffic on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @06:41PM
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I'm not quite sure what the advantages are between one protocol or another, but I'm also not sure why there have to be two camps of development when one standard can be hashed out.
I do know that the status quo of having a single private company dominating the space is not ideal and would love to see any alternatives take root.
Re:Kevin Systrom On Pulling Twitter Cards Integration
by graue on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @09:25PM
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I should have put this in my last post: “Why not OStatus”, from the Tent authors themselves: https://github.com/tent/tent.io/issues/4
The tl;dr is that Tent is much broader in scope than OStatus while being, at its core, simpler.
I don't mean to be rude or dismissive towards another open-social project, but I have been unimpressed with the design and usability of Identi.ca. OStatus seems to be the work of idealistic folks who hoped they could just make an open protocol and people would flock to it, solely because it was open. Predictably, that hasn't happened. Open is great, but software also needs to provide a great user experience. I think the Tent community gets this.
Tent is also more than a Twitter clone. It already supports private posts, long-form blogging and social bookmarking, unlike OStatus, and in the months ahead it will do much more.
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.monstarlab...
[2] http://signup.tentrapp.com/ and http://bivy.me/
[3] http://jabs.nu/Tentia/
[4] http://zelten.cc/, http://essayist.mndj.me/