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 Good article, exciting to see where this will go. With so much influencing power in social media networks today, we don't want it in the hands of a few untrustworthy characters. I would like to see gov't involved but maybe at arms length, CBC one article mentioned, libraries mentioned here, but the model needs to be sustainable, so funding has to be addressed. I've started using ActivityPub on my website so could post from there on Mastodon and still have a record saved.
@whatsupeh @blaine CBC makes some sense to me as well.