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Oh wait, we already had that, and then we centralized and monopolized the hell out of it [0] [0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html

• astrange 4y ago
  That's because decentralized networks are expensive and can't handle spam unless you make receiving messages opt-in, and then you can't @ people like you can on Twitter.
  • freeflight 4y ago
    We had, and still have, standards to deal with crossplatform messaging, like Jabber or Matrix. What prevents that from catching on at scale is, the "big boys", like MS, FB or Google, mostly not playing ball and never implementing these in their own messaging platforms, to keep their gardens neatly walled from each other. As intraplatform exchange is not really in-line with what most of these platforms are striving for these days; Interactions with their own platforms and the advertisers on it.
  • zaik 4y ago
    You can @ people on Mastodon with @user@domain.tld. I have yet to receive spam on my Mastodon or XMPP address (which I treat like my telephone number).
    • shapefrog 4y ago
      To have spam, you must first have users. My can and string communications network doesnt have any spam either.