Words from Twitter

TLSN.com Admin (Rick) via Zotlabs|Hubzilla Development

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:41:24 +0100

!Zotlabs|Hubzilla Development FWIW:
Jack at Twitter thinks an open and decentralized standard would be good for social media.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1204766078468911106.html

emanuel @ la bonne heure

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 09:20:48 +0100

!Zotlabs|Zot

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:55:32 +0100 last edited: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:52:49 +0100

Except - he wants it under Twitter's control.

This is a slightly different version of "Embrace and Extinguish."

I really hope nobody is foolish enough to take him up on it. It's like the big oil company coming to the inventor of a new engine that runs on tap water, "Oh, we want to take this mainstream." When in actuality, they want to make sure to get the intellectual property rights so they can shelve it.

It never ends well.

muppeth

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:51:25 +0100

So true. I find it so disturbing that so many projects in the twitter thread are trying to get twitter folks use their protocols.