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Twitter itself may be a fad, but there's still a need for some kind of light-weight, small, broadcast mechanism. If this had been done decades ago, we'd have a
by KingMob 13y ago
Twitter itself may be a fad, but there's still a need for some kind of light-weight, small, broadcast mechanism.
If this had been done decades ago, we'd have an RFC and it would be a distributed protocol like email. Instead we have a single company dictating terms, for better or worse.
- ForHackernews 13y agoMaybe it's not too late? We need more protocols and fewer "platforms". Is anyone working on writing such a protocol? The problem is getting somebody to implement and support it. XMPP has suffered because companies refuse to federate, and keep trying to build in their own proprietary extensions.