News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media. Parent comment

Re:Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for so... by ctrlaltdylan on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @01:25PM (#21765254)
Can someone explain in 3 short phrases or less how ActivityPub or another standard actually solves the problems that centralized social media creates?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for so... by tylerchilds on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @01:35PM (#21765363)
Best to think about it like email. You can send and receive email to anyone at any domain, if their server is set up for email. We all just happened to centralize ourselves onto Gmail and Google's servers.

Replace email with "social media content" and you have ActivityPub.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for so... by fenwick67 on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @01:47PM (#21765483)
Choice of your instance, moderators, and client. It enables smaller, self-policing communities to run a compatible instance with minimal costs.
[ Parent | on HN ]