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>you get to use a slightly worse form of Twitter The protocol can support all sorts of other social networks. People are building things akin to instagram, tik
by mcdonje 9mo ago
>you get to use a slightly worse form of Twitter
The protocol can support all sorts of other social networks. People are building things akin to instagram, tiktok, medium, allrecipies, etc
- maelito 9mo agoI'm building a place review system.
- direwolf20 9mo agoIs there an advantage to using this protocol instead of a more application–specific one? Perhaps the shared identity?
- steveklabnik 9mo agoA few things. Shared identity is one of them. Another is that applications can understand each other's data and mix them together, if they wish, or keep them separate, if they wish. An instagram-like client can read the posts made by the microblogging client and re-use posts that include images, for example. Same goes with the social graph: re-use one from another application, or create your own.