The biggest mistake web devs ever made was focusing on corporate-owned APIs instead of on new and innovative open protocols.

I don't care how all-encompassing Big Social becomes -- or whether Google or Apple can keep their market valuations ongoing.

Those "critical" APIs can be yoinked at any moment.

However, SMTP and HTTP have now been used for decades. So why not build on the next generation of open protocols?

@atomicpoet what are the next generation of open protocols - the ones underlying the fediverse? Or do you have others in mind?
@PlaneSailingGames Here's a helpful chart.
@atomicpoet @PlaneSailingGames меня если честно напрягает то, что все пытаются выбрать именно activitypub: федивёрс вокруг одного протокола – весьма опасно как по мне

Но кредит доверия большой, жду и надеюсь