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Noel KellyThat makes 3 universal standards.
lachlan slowly taming rust@esdin Ngl, genuinely tempted to implement my own. It'll have a chronological timeline, and by default, show you everything you followed and nothing you didn't.
Edaqa Mortoray@esdin But unlike chargers, proliferation of social platforms is a good thing. It's too much control to have centralized.
@mortoray but it is not such a good thing when people don’t have good tools for broadcasting important information, sourcing work, and boosting the visibility of others. Too many walled platforms means not enough concurrency in any one, too many protocols means the same for federated platforms
@esdin Monopolies are always bad, as are duopolies. Those platforms exercise too much control over what information may be disseminated and who receives it.
We simply don't need platforms that address the whole world. A platform that represents even 5% market share is huge relative to a small company, and as a company grows it can easily exist on multiple platforms.
T5F TiZMore like “we need to develop a universal standard that ignores a whole bunch of usecases that probably don’t matter! …oops, turn out they matter.”
Justin ⏚"I don't want to join Mastodon because federation is confusing"
"You don't actually have to leave your home server."
"But then I'd just be contributing to the problem of centralized social media!"