Part of me wonders, though, if spreading out wouldn't help make fandom a bit less of a target for now. Particularly with a little bit of work on the cross-clone tech for LJ-based serversfir.
- with RSS, you already have the ability to create syndicated accounts from other journals, to watch them on your home friends page. - with OpenID, people on your non-home server can add you to their friendslist, so that you can see their posts without having to create a non-home server account.
The first major interoperability problem I can see right now is that at least on LJ, OpenID users are considered "anonymous" for the purposes of commenting. For this to work most efficiently, OpenID either needs to be considered its own commenting security level, or it should be tied in with "registered users." Otherwise, people disallowing anonymous comments are disallowing OpenID people to comment at the same time.
The second major problem involves the ability to search for and locate new comms by interest. Separate searches on each fandom site? Inefficient. Newsletters will become much more important, as a result; so will newbieguide, at least as stopgaps until there's an efficient multi-site search out there.
- with RSS, you already have the ability to create syndicated accounts from other journals, to watch them on your home friends page.
- with OpenID, people on your non-home server can add you to their friendslist, so that you can see their posts without having to create a non-home server account.
The first major interoperability problem I can see right now is that at least on LJ, OpenID users are considered "anonymous" for the purposes of commenting. For this to work most efficiently, OpenID either needs to be considered its own commenting security level, or it should be tied in with "registered users." Otherwise, people disallowing anonymous comments are disallowing OpenID people to comment at the same time.
The second major problem involves the ability to search for and locate new comms by interest. Separate searches on each fandom site? Inefficient. Newsletters will become much more important, as a result; so will newbieguide, at least as stopgaps until there's an efficient multi-site search out there.
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