Nolan LawsonDec 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
Show threadNolan LawsonDec 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.

Show threadMark Shane Hayden

@nolan Anyone who has a Twitter account please tweet-bomb Jack as well as the new @[email protected] account to continually remind them to avoid NIH syndrome and embrace established standards and implementations, namely ActivityPub and Secure Scuttlebutt which he seems intent on duplicating, instead of wasting resources on something destined to lack vision due to focusing on Twitter's agenda.

I hope @cwebber and @Gargron pester them regularly 

Dec 11, 2019 at 4:06pmWeb
Show threaddeutrinoDec 11, 2019
@msh bold of you to assume good faith can exist in the same skull as Twitter-brand BlockchainTivitypub
@nolan @cwebber @Gargron
Show threadMark Shane HaydenDec 11, 2019

@deutrino I have no confidence in Jack, or Twitter, doing the right thing. Perhaps I could be surprised

The intention would be to bring Jack and his newly formed Bluesky "independent team" down a peg, and make it knowm to their thousands/millions of followers that Jack is no visionary on decentralization and that the idea is well established and even standardised.

@nolan @cwebber @Gargron