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đź”– Twitter Makes A Bet On Protocols Over Platforms

Chris M.
| December 11th, 2019

đź”– Bookmarked: Twitter Makes A Bet On Protocols Over Platforms

“It looks like Twitter is making a bet on protocols over platforms for its future.

Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social…”

To me, the obvious thing to do would be to contribute to and improve ActivityPub. It already exists as a standard, is fairly "battle-tested", and is used by Mastodon and other federated social media applications, along with having some buy-in in the IndieWeb.

I can’t help but think they’ll eventually decide on something new, purely so they can claim to have created it. "Not invented here" is a far too common hang-up for many technology companies.

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Chris M.
| June 2nd, 2019

I signed up to a Mastodon instance so I can test how my posts come through at @chris@mrkapowski.com. I don’t really plan on using Mastodon much, but if you’re on an instance, or your site is available through ActivityPub, let me know and I’ll follow you

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