Richard MacManusDec 21, 2022
My interview with @blaine, who was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building #fediverse infrastructure that will help #Mastodon scale. https://thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer-is-now-all-in-on-mastodon/
Why a Twitter Founding Engineer Is Now All-in on Mastodon

Blaine Cook was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building fediverse infrastructure that will help Mastodon scale.

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Show threadJames GleickDec 21, 2022
@ricmac @blaine I happen to agree with this: “Many people would like to join a Mastodon instance that lets them open their posts up for indexing, so that we can search content on that instance — it’s good for topic tracking, monitoring news, etc.”
Show threadsuldrew 🚲🏳️‍🌈
@JamesGleick @ricmac @blaine So long as we can block it. I don't want people searching to harass.
Dec 21, 2022 at 7:40pmWeb
Show threadblaineDec 21, 2022
@suldrew @JamesGleick @ricmac yes, agreed. Consent is critical and must be central to the Fediverse model. @[email protected]'s work on capability-based communication in particular, an extension of her work on ActivityPub, will be important in this regard. In the meantime, though, we can 100% build search with explicit opt-in/opt-out semantics.