Twitter’s decentralized social network project finally has a leader

#1

Post by estranhosidade » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

Twitter’s decentralized social network project finally has a leader
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Re: Twitter’s decentralized social network project finally has a leader

#2

Post by machinecontrol » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 9:47 PM UTC

Can’t help but fear this is a classic embrace-extend-extinguish pattern for open social networking protocols.

Re: Twitter’s decentralized social network project finally has a leader

#3

Post by estranhosidade » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:11 PM UTC

machinecontrol wrote: post #2

Can’t help but fear this is a classic embrace-extend-extinguish pattern for open social networking protocols.

I fully agree with you. I'm absolute skeptic about anything Facebook and Twitter and other multi-billion dollar tech companies support. Especially because, the whole project of a decentralized social network, if this succeeded, and really became mainstream, these same companies would loose A LOT of power.

It would be easier to compete with them, they would lose their role as being the gate keeper of acceptable debate on a huge part of the internet, so there's a huge down scepticism from my part, thinking "they will find some way to taint and contaminate this whole project... somehow". Twitter would never actually embrace this idea, certainly voluntarily.

Re: Twitter’s decentralized social network project finally has a leader

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Post by riffic » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 3:53 AM UTC

it'd be a sign of good faith if Jay/the team could at least adopt a presence on the existing decentralized/federated social networking system recommended by the W3C.

Like, at the minimum they can stand up a WordPress blog and use a plugin to do so from their own domain. I'm not holding my breath in the meantime.

Re: Twitter’s decentralized social network project finally has a leader

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Post by estranhosidade » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 2:40 PM UTC

riffic wrote: post #4

it'd be a sign of good faith if Jay/the team could at least adopt a presence on the existing decentralized/federated social networking system recommended by the W3C. Like, at the minimum they can stand up a WordPress blog and use a plugin to do so from their own domain. I'm not holding my breath in the meantime.

Hell, they could at least offer RSS support to twitter.

Re: Twitter’s decentralized social network project finally has a leader

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Post by riffic » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 3:20 PM UTC

estranhosidade wrote: post #5

riffic wrote: post #4

it'd be a sign of good faith if Jay/the team could at least adopt a presence on the existing decentralized/federated social networking system recommended by the W3C. Like, at the minimum they can stand up a WordPress blog and use a plugin to do so from their own domain. I'm not holding my breath in the meantime.

Hell, they could at least offer RSS support to twitter.

bare minimum!