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Yep, core "twitter" protocol should have been written up as an RFC and set up de-centralized, like SMTP. Orgs shouldn't have twitter accounts, they should have
by riffic 11y ago
Yep, core "twitter" protocol should have been written up as an RFC and set up de-centralized, like SMTP.
Orgs shouldn't have twitter accounts, they should have their own twitter/microblog services!
- pferde 11y agoIsn't that what Laconica^WStatusnet^WGnusocial is all about? And, to some extent, pump.io.
- riffic 11y agoyup and as far as I know, there's a stagnant committee at the w3c dedicated to drafting a spec: https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/ https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/
- pjc50 11y agoSpam and abuse fighting (not that Twitter is good at the latter, but they do occasionally try) are extremely hard to do in distributed systems. You end up building recentralised blocklists which have to get funded somehow.
- riffic 11y agoThat bikeshed will get painted at some point.
- webmaven 11y agoWe know so much about these problems from email spam, that I doubt that a decentralized microblogging system will ever be as overwhelmed (email still has to be backward compatible with cryptographically ignorant client software). Besides, even with email, centralized email services that trust other centralized implementations (as well as properly administered servers that have the correct credentials, rather than blocklists) have done much to shield ordinary users from the problem, and spam is now less than 50% of all email, compared to 90% in 2009. Abuse is a separate and tougher nut to crack, though.
- webmaven 11y agoI agree! I've asked that Twitter implement OStatus: https://twitter.com/nerdworldorder/status/657073820801470464 https://twitter.com/nerdworldorder/status/657073820801470464