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To the extent that any "more open than twitter!" competitor begins to gain adoption, twitter can simply open up a little bit to kill it. Knowing this, why woul
by ambition 18y ago
To the extent that any "more open than twitter!" competitor begins to gain adoption, twitter can simply open up a little bit to kill it.
Knowing this, why would anyone put a big financial and infrastructure commitment into a more-open twitter clone?
- JulianMorrison 18y agolaconi.ca is OSS and can't be killed. All it needs is volunteers and users, and a turn to the dark side by Twitter would supply them. As such it makes a nice "sword of Damocles".
- apgwoz 18y agoBut, if Twitter opens up a bit we all win! Ultimately, laconi.ca is attempting to be a distributed, open Twitter. Any more openness in Twitter will help make that happen, because laconi.ca can take advantage of new API methods to build abstractions for it's own distributed service protocol.