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by xtracto 1110 days ago
We need to go back to build open protocols. Protocols instead of programs. And then let Open Source and companies build the programs.

That was a fight we had "won" on the days of MP3 (very painful), SMTP, MKV, among others during the 80s and 90s. The fact that people are now more willing to go back to install "real software" (in the form of phone applications) instead of web apps is an opportunity.
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slushh 1109 days ago
'We' are building such a protocol with ActivityPub. What's wrong with it that you have ignored it?
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xtracto 1109 days ago
Aaah!! I was just trying to remember the "facebook killer" . Diaspora!! IIRC ActivityPub is what c as me from its inception in 2010.

Nothing wrong with it. Good job what the team has been doing. Now we only need some entity to build the "killer" social network app using it.

Something like the Hotmail or (later) Gmail of SMTP.

I'll be waiting!

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