[jdev] The `XMPP as a social network` idea

[stefan]

Welcome, h8h or for short: 'troll', to jdev!
I am truly sorry but my mother forbids me to feed you.
Have a nice day!

/Stefan

On 2015-02-08 18:16, h8h at dev-nu11.de wrote:
> Hi there
>
> What happened with the `XMPP as a social network` idea? I would love 
> to see a social network build on XMPP soon. There are a few projects yet:
>  * Jappix: Runs very well, but its a bit ugly / complicated for new 
> users and the theme is outdated (in my opinion) [1].
>  * Movim: Not so kick-ass as they described. Crashs very often (on my 
> own box) and there is no `easy` option to let (new) user register on 
> my own xmpp server [2].
>  * Onesocialweb is dead [3].
>  * Social Stream: The last commit was at Jun 5, 2014. And its written 
> in ruby [4].
>  * Buddycloud is nice, but its written in Java and Java has many 
> security risks [5].
>
> So is `XMPP as a social network` a misuse of the xmpp `standard` / 
> basic idea?
>
> Because I'm going to write an open-source social network based on XMPP 
> (mostly pubsub). Maybe in a nicer language (i.e. javascript /php (file 
> upload and so on) / python (django)  ). It should have an activity 
> flow, like Social Stream [4], a Chat (w OTR support), like converse.js 
> [6] and thats all for now. It should be very basic and secure and more 
> suitable for people with less xmpp experience. That means, simple 
> login / user creation, simple posting (w maybe like / dislike) and 
> post reading (activity flow), chat w/o otr.
>
> I don't know why the other projects are dead or `not working well` so 
> I hope you folks can give me tricks, hints & pitfalls if I should / 
> shouldn't launch the new project I mentioned above.
>
> Thanks so far for your thoughts.
>
> Cheers
>
> Christian Homeyer
>
> [1] https://github.com/jappix/jappix
> [2] https://launchpad.net/movim
> [3] http://onesocialweb.org/ / https://twitter.com/OneSocialWeb
> [4] https://github.com/ging/social_stream/
> [5] https://github.com/buddycloud
> [6] https://github.com/jcbrand/converse.js
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