@evan What do you mean by an "app"? Do you mean one of those handicapped programs that are useless as soon as some specific server isn't available?
Then I'd rather use neither.
#ProtocolsNotApps

Otherwise: a desktop program, of course, ideally running inside #Emacs

@blaine Said it before, but I'll say it again: #ProtocolsNotApps. If we're to exchange information, let's agree on protocols to do it, not specific implementations.

(And for this argument, we can consider Twitter's API a cloud-hosted "implementation" that non-Twitter people cannot download and run on their own infrastructure.)

@IronCurtain @jschauma @pluralistic @mmasnick

Both… #ProtocolsNotApps and #ProtocolsNotPlatforms -- although realistically a platform is an externally-hosted application though. Just one you're not allowed to host yourself. So the latter is redundant. ;-)

@jschauma @pluralistic @mmasnick

> But Facebook has a new pitch. It claims to be called Meta, and it has demanded that we live out the rest of our days as legless, sexless, heavily surveilled low-poly cartoon characters.

Reminds me a lot of the Zager & Evans song "In The Year 2525".

Modern Internet annoys me we're too app/platform obsessed, we should support #ProtocolsNotApps. Otherwise history will repeat itself again.