Isn't this called ActivityPub and hasn't this been working well for the last couple of years?
Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
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#22Why build anything? Just[0] make Twitter a Mastodon instance.
[0] Haha
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#23Is there anything wrong with targeting GNU Social and/or ActivityPub for Twitter's use case?
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#24Old Jack seems a little wild these days--like some of that Paul LeRoux / John McAfee outlaw energy has entered his soul.
Will keep my fingers crossed.
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#25Mastodon, anyone? https://joinmastodon.org
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#26Seems like Twitter is looking to embrace, extend and extinguish Mastodon, etc.
This is good, in a sense - means Twitter is feeling the competition. But any open source developers out there should trust Twitter just as far as you can throw them.
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#27I don't understand how this solves anything. What can stop shitty people from joining and posting content to any of this?
Nothing will stop unwanted posts. But crowdsourcing moderation could theoretically give you a cleaner feed.
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#28They should at the very least evaluate ActivityPub. It's a W3C standard that reached "Recommended" status almost two years ago, is flexible enough for future use-cases, and already has multiple implementations like Mastodon.
In fact, any app can be made to act as a source, sink or both of ActivityPub events. I recently added ActivityPub support to learnawesome.org so that reviews can be consumed in any ActivityPub client. Implementation was easy and the data model is quite easy to understand.
ActivityPub is real-time pub/sub for the entire Web, something that Twitter could have been.
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#29How is decentralized twitter supposed to solve misinformation? It mostly makes moderation (or censorship) impossible.
I get the feeling that is the idea. They want a "neutral" platform where they have no responsibility.
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#30Isn't this called ActivityPub and hasn't this been working well for the last couple of years?
Exactly. I somehow doubt Dorsey doesn't know about ActivityPub - why not just endorse it publicly if he genuinely cared about decentralization?
Are there genuine technical shortcomings in the ActivityPub standard that Twitter's engineering team has identified? Why not talk about that and contribute improvements to the standard?
Are there shortcomings to being part of the standardization process in the W3C? Then talk about that and make the processes better.
Is it that he needs his name stamped on a new protocol? I'm not sure we can do much about the terminal egotism of the ultra wealthy and its pernicious effects on our society. Solving this will take a tremendous amount of collective effort.