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Tyler Harper Nov 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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excog Nov 24, 2022

@tylerharper @blaine

"...if a server happens to go down all of its accounts and posts go with it."

Hi,

Is there no way posts are lost? Surely posts can be duplicated on own hardrive?

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blaine

@excog @tylerharper yup, of course! Also services like the Internet Archive could act as backups. In the current scheme of things, though, they wouldn't be available at the original URLs, so there would be no way to find them (verification that they were real is a separate question).