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Re: Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media

#4
Twitter has repeatedly demonstrated that they are not a developer friendly company and that you should never build anything on their APIs. Since day one, they've done nothing but crack down on 3rd party development and peel away access.

They are the last company that should be trusted to develop an open standard.

Re: Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media

#5
I'd say they should use ActivityPub[1] instead of wasting time on their own incompatible solution, but quite frankly I don't want Twitter federating with Mastodon. We get our fill of chuds with anime avatars thanks to Pleroma, and don't really need or want Twitter around because decentralization won't make it any less of a digital sacrifice zone[2].

1: https://activitypub.rocks/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice_zone

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