Re: [dev] [OT] twitter

2010-06-11 Thread Michael
torrent has a hash for chunks, so you could be sure that no one touched anything and you get exact copy of what torrent maker had. On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 03:16, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > 2010/6/11 pmarin : >> p2p > > How is that persistent? Everyone shunts around the logs? > > -- > Samuel Baldwin

Re: [dev] [OT] twitter

2010-06-11 Thread Samuel Baldwin
2010/6/11 pmarin : > p2p How is that persistent? Everyone shunts around the logs? -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

Re: [dev] [OT] twitter

2010-06-11 Thread pmarin
> How do you have it be both persistent and distributed? p2p pmarin.

Re: [dev] [OT] twitter

2010-06-11 Thread Samuel Baldwin
2010/6/11 pancake : > Irc is not persistent. Channels have restricted boundaries, so you can't How do you have it be both persistent and distributed? -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

Re: [dev] [OT] twitter

2010-06-11 Thread pancake
Irc is not persistent. Channels have restricted boundaries, so you can't relate messages between more than one channel. And irc needs more attention. Chat aims to be sincrunous, microblogging not. But yeah u could implement microblogging on top of this. another good thing of microblogging i

Re: [dev] [OT] twitter

2010-06-11 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 11 June 2010 17:15, pancake wrote: > Certainly I would prefer to use a twitter-like protocol if it was text-based > (no xml), distributed. Isn't that basically IRC?

Re: [dev] [OT] twitter

2010-06-11 Thread pancake
I have find in twitter (identica and others..aka microblogging) a very interesting way of comunication. The protocol is simple, the messaging is simple, is fast to read (because you cannot post large stuff) and can be used in a very simple way. It's true that twitter is full of morons, but you

[dev] [OT] twitter

2010-06-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 11/06/10 Kris Maglione said: > I'd sooner throw away my computer than sign up for a Twitter > account. I have one but I admit it was mostly out of curiousity. I feel like an idiot saying "tweet". Just fix email, at least it's decentralized and universal. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any inte