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I think Twitter is more like a protocol than a website; and frankly it's too important at this point to be left in the hands of Twitter Inc. I'd love to see a s
by waderoush 14y ago
I think Twitter is more like a protocol than a website; and frankly it's too important at this point to be left in the hands of Twitter Inc. I'd love to see a serious discussion about making it a community-owned standard on the same level with TCP/IP or SMTP. But I guess that could never happen in a free-enterprise-obsessed world -- unless, perhaps, Twitter proved itself to be such a bad steward that its users demanded some kind of "nationalization."
- tjic 14y ago> I think Twitter is more like a protocol than a website; and frankly it's too important at this point to be left in the hands of Twitter Inc. Yeah, what we really need is the same people who run the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Post Office to take it away from the filthy profit-seekers who created it. THAT will improve uptime AND innovation.
- cleverjake 14y agoI believe app.net was recently pivoted to create this sort of a thing.
- ericmoritz 14y agoA decentralized twitter clone wouldn't be that hard; just mimic Email with subscriptions. The hard part is getting adoption.