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I keep having this thought that Twitter could be solved by Cloudflare or similar cloud systems that can expose HTTP APIs and cheaply serve content through globa
by topspin 4y ago
I keep having this thought that Twitter could be solved by Cloudflare or similar cloud systems that can expose HTTP APIs and cheaply serve content through global caches.
Start with the principle that you own (and pay for, if necessary) the cloud resources for your piece of the social network. A standardized API that does the things you expect of a microblog; post stuff, collect replies, followers, etc. runs in your account. You control it: access, moderation (possibly delegated as you prefer), advertising, throttling, whatever.
Assuming everyone is using a standardized protocol (DIDs for identity for instance) users could interact seamlessly. How hard could it be to clone Twitter on Cloudflare? Would it take more than a few thousand lines of Javascript/WASM to replicate the basic microblogging functions? A good onboarding system to automate the setup to be at least as easy(...?) as typical social networks would be necessary. Search would solve itself if the network was sufficiently popular.
- Nemo_bis 4y agoIn the fediverse, each instance is its own cache.