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There's absolutely nothing stopping a consortium of news outlets from adopting the W3C recommendation ActivityPub to push out microposts directly from their own
by riffic 5y ago
There's absolutely nothing stopping a consortium of news outlets from adopting the W3C recommendation ActivityPub to push out microposts directly from their own content management systems, with an existing audience open web audience.
- streamofdigits 5y agothat is in principle possible (essentially replace twitter by RSS aggregator clients) but is not exactly equivalent: for example some entities could microblog on "next-gen twitter" without having a website and there is also the question of reactions from readers to posts (whether those are seen centrally by all users) that centralization and processing of responses is by-and-large part of the social media problem (both generating the twitterstorm dynamic and having spawned the shadowy "sentiment" industry) but I suspect a lot of addicted users are quite keen to keep it going