[tech, lj] Distributing LJ
Ever since the Strikethrough of '07 -- actually, ever since I realized that LJ was something of an attractive nuisance of basket in which to store eggs, way back when -- I've been thinking about how one would go about turning LJ, the software, from a client/server model to a peer-to-peer model. That is, how to make LJ distributed
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OpenID does seem very much like DNS (albeit login-based and not site-based) these days, on review. It does seem to have evolved. But it still relies on some core of servers, which makes it not a pure peer-to-peer system (indeed, I don't think such a thing can ever exist except for very small subnets).
LJ authentication requires DNS? Not the way I use it. The computer at my IP address gets a cookie with a session token. It doesn't care what domain name I resolve to. (it does care what IP livejounal.com resolves to, but I could just use an IP address for one of their servers and bypass that)
Interests and search are certainly not well implemented, but although they seem unimportant to someone entrenched, I can say that without such things, I would never have found anyone on LJ: I started out not knowing a single person on here. It took months of searching to find interesting people.
Here's a question, then. If we are not too concerned about determining the face behind the mask, then why did we move beyond personal web sites and usenet to things like LJ? Was it just the convenience of having a username (domain) and a way to find when content on other places was updated (there were many tools for this over a decade ago)? Or is what you are looking for (and I know this will sound artificial) is a way to have semantic content posted in a personal syntactic realm, but open and distributable?
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No, actually, I think you're just wrong. Factually incorrect. Just plain mistaken. Don't know what you're talking about.
OpenID does seem very much like DNS (albeit login-based and not site-based) these days, on review. It does seem to have evolved. But it still relies on some core of servers
No, it doesn't. Here's the URL: http://openid.net/ Get back to me when you can in anyway reference anything on that site which substantiates your repeated claim that it requires centralized core servers.
LJ authentication requires DNS? Not the way I use it.
Well, it does to precisely the same way and in the same extent that OpenID does. You're the one who brought up the insufficiency of distribution of DNS, and that is the only place it applies.
Interests and search are certainly not well implemented, but although they seem unimportant to someone entrenched, I can say that without such things, I would never have found anyone on LJ: I started out not knowing a single person on here. It took months of searching to find interesting people.
. <- World's smallest violin, playing just for you.
If we are not too concerned about determining the face behind the mask, then why did we move beyond personal web sites and usenet to things like LJ?
Well, I'm pretty sure that there is no "we" here, because if Interests was in some fashion useful to you, "we" certainly didn't come here for the same reasons. The "we" I belong to is the lion's share of LJ users who came here because it was where their friends already were, and an account was required to access their friends' secure content.
You tax my patience. I feel you are wasting my time on self-indulgent, pointless wankery which is baseless, feckless and useless. Either do something to change my mind on that in a hurry or take it somewhere else, because I feel I have spent too much courtesy indulging someone would couldn't even be bothered to RTFM.
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I apologize. Clearly my understanding of OpenID was quite sketchy.
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