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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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.
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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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Replying to @outlandishjosh
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.

Jul 31, 2018 · 5:58 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @outlandishjosh
One of the reasons Micro.blog isn't open source is that it doesn't really invent any new protocols or formats. It's glue for everything else, plus new apps. Instead of someone "running their own Micro.blog", they can just use off-the-shelf blogs.
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Yeah makes sense, plus as a paid service. My vision is slightly different in that I can see communities, orgs, businesses, or just groups of friends running their own "hubs" in addition to having individual blogs/blogs-as-a-service. Very glad to have found all this!
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