Tyler HarperNov 24, 2022
Blaine Cook (@blaine) was Twitter’s first engineer. He wanted it to become a decentralized social network like #Mastodon and he isn’t too upset that Elon Musk is ruining the app he built. I spoke with Cook about what direction social media should take now. https://www.nelsonstar.com/news/nelsons-blaine-cook-helped-build-twitter-and-he-has-a-few-ideas-on-what-should-come-next/
Nelson’s Blaine Cook helped build Twitter – and he has a few ideas on what should come next

<p>Cook was Twitter’s founding engineer, and is now advocating for decentralized social networks </p>

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@tylerharper @blaine so what's your take on Tumblr and Flickr *possibly* implementing ActivityPub (for the record, that's the World Wide Web Consortium's actual standard under Mastodon and a few more federated tools: https://activitypub.rocks/)
ActivityPub Rocks!

Nov 24, 2022 at 3:56pmWeb
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@root @tylerharper I'm stoked!

I think that sort of move is going to drive the actually big shift. Twitter's great in many ways and terrible in lots of others, and Mastodon is a mostly-faithful reproduction of that.

The *really* interesting stuff will happen when people can experiment with what "social media" means again.