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If I was in charge of Twitter, I'd remake it so that it's just a Mastodon server. Suddenly, no reason to migrate to another server, as you can just stay in the
by snvzz 4y ago
If I was in charge of Twitter, I'd remake it so that it's just a Mastodon server.
Suddenly, no reason to migrate to another server, as you can just stay in the biggest one and keep your clout.
Google pulled off something similar with gtalk and XMPP. Remember Jabber?
- colinsane 4y agoi remember. but was google "successful" with that approach? XMPP is a pretty niche thing, but i can count at least a couple friends who use it on occasion, whereas i haven't heard a single person near me mention gtalk in years.
- NoahKAndrews 4y agoGoogle killed Google Talk in favor of Google Hangouts, which they recently also killed in favor of Google Chat. XMPP federation died with Google Talk.
- tommica 4y agoBut what about tracking and ads? Would be difficult to track users that are in a different instance, with no way of showing ads to them - not sure twitter could survive without that. Idea itself is a neat one though.