A new form of social media: open protocol, decentralized nodes with the ability to mod, central services to do identity and enable content aggregation and discovery. Like online gaming, where people can run their own servers if they want.
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Replying to @outlandishjosh
Found the top of this thread. This is pretty much 100% the goal of what we're doing. micro.blog is one of the first commercial services that both provides hosting as well as content aggregation and discovery. Doesn't need to be open source, just open protocols.

Jul 31, 2018 · 3:53 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk
I'll check it out! I agree it didn't *need* to be open source, but Free (libre) reference implementations of open protocols speed up adoption. Also if you have a good open protocol and there aren't open source projects around it, it might not be working yet. ;)
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oh yeah for sure. To be clear, my only involvement in micro.blog is having written several of the protocols that they are built on. e.g. w3.org/TR/micropub/ w3.org/TR/webmention/ w3.org/TR/indieauth/ I'm a big fan of getting many implementations early.
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