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Twitter simply becoming a large ActivityPub server sounds nice in theory. But in practice it would be no different than it is today, because they would just bla
by olah_1 6y ago
Twitter simply becoming a large ActivityPub server sounds nice in theory. But in practice it would be no different than it is today, because they would just blacklist servers and make everyone submit, right?
A more attractive approach would probably be something more p2p like SSB or the Iris project. But at that point, Twitter can’t really do much to “brand” that as Twitter.
- riffic 6y agoWhat I think Twitter could do is to become a managed service (like G Suite is "Google for your domain", Twitter could offer its own suite of services on custom domains).
- egypturnash 6y agoIn practice probably every AP server that doesn’t say “we refuse to blacklist anyone” would probably blacklist Twitter anyway, it’s too fucking huge to moderate.
- olah_1 6y agoWhat a mess that would be. A user has to keep in their mind which servers they can and can’t talk to while also remembering which servers their friends are on to begin with.
- lapinot 6y agoMy 2cts: It would be ok to soft-block huge servers: making them opt-in only, on user-by-user basis. Ie you could follow from/to twitter on some other AP server, but no notification on (unrequested) mention, shared #tag searching, etc. Imho you never should to talk to "the world" (especially with microblogging, it's door open to drama, troll and everything abuse). Not sure if this exists in AP servers, heard the moderation is missing some stuff. Anyway I never used any microblogging.