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 (DIR) Post #9pxtdpAEQuOTq7s4h6 by alex@spinster.xyz
       2019-12-14T19:21:04Z
       
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       Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social network creators don’t trust it https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/12/21012553/twitter-bluesky-decentralized-social-network-developers-reaction-mastodon-activitypub
       
 (DIR) Post #9pxvIpwwW5o86Tm9Dc by PumpkinPie@spinster.xyz
       2019-12-14T19:39:39Z
       
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       @alex Interesting."But among many people who already work on decentralized networks, the response was a collective roll of the eyes. Twitter wasn’t boldly stepping into new territory; it was stomping into an existing field with a lot of noise and very little detail...In an email to The Verge, Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko says there’s reason for developers to be leery of Bluesky. He mentions the “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” problem — where a huge company adopts an open protocol, becomes its biggest user, and then changes its system to lock everybody else out. (The phrase originated with Microsoft in the ‘90s, and more recently, it’s been applied to Google taking over RSS and the XMPP chat protocol.)"