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Your comment is the one that’s weird. HN is not a hive mind, and hacker news itself is a proprietary site that doesn’t implement any open standards or protocols
by endisneigh 3y ago
Your comment is the one that’s weird. HN is not a hive mind, and hacker news itself is a proprietary site that doesn’t implement any open standards or protocols.
Even if we accept your faulty premise, the solution would be to encourage the open protocol, not build on top of closed ones…
- hnlmorg 3y agohttps://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
- endisneigh 3y agoWhich open standard is implemented? Not XMPP, not Mastodon or Matrix. And unless something changed, you can’t even make posts using that API, again to the point. iMessage does have an API as well, it’s just not publicly available. Hence the current debacle
- hnlmorg 3y ago> Which open standard is implemented? I never said anything about the protocol needing to be a standard. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man > iMessage does have an API as well, it’s just not publicly available. That’s a hell of a “just” ;)
- endisneigh 3y ago> The comments in here are weird. HN is normally an advocate for open protocols (like Mastodon, XMPP) > It’s weird how open source has taken over the world and yet our messaging protocols have gotten more proprietary than ever.
- hnlmorg 3y ago…and not one mention of the term “standard”. Something can be open and not a standard. Like the HN API.
- endisneigh 3y agoIs the HN api proprietary?
- hnlmorg 3y agoIm not here to discuss HN and I’m not getting dragged into your strawman arguments. So ending our discussion here.
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