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Nolan Lawson Dec 11, 2019

Pretty impressive to see Twitter's CEO explain how awesome the fediverse is without once mentioning the fediverse. Is this some kind of Oulipo-like game? https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106

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Nolan Lawson Dec 11, 2019

Seriously though, my brain is not doing a good job processing this news. Some quick thoughts:

- No mention of ActivityPub/Scuttlebutt/Diaspora/etc, but... "blockchain"? For some reason?
- Jack is totally right about decentralized moderation; one of the best things about the fediverse.
- Whatever standard Twitter decides upon, it will become the de-facto standard. (See: browsers and market share.)
- Struggling to understand what's in it for Twitter in all this.

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tech? no! man, see...

@nolan re "what's in it for Twitter" maybe they hope to make relevant-sounding noises in a desperate attempt to create buzz?

their entire trajectory for the past decade has been dropping APIs and moving to a more and more closed ecosystem, so the chances of this actually working are vanishingly slim, but the positioning could be strategic even if it goes nowhere.