News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

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

Re:Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for so... by shotashotashota on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:54AM (#21771420)
Unless its open source and everyone can contribute, decentralized enough that everyone can set up their own networks, then its just another company trying to make long term investment in their company I am not going to trust Jack, any company, on any single person on anything.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for so... by ainiriand on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:59AM (#21771446)
Apparently they want to create a distributed ledger using something akin to a blockchain. If that is the case then they can benefit from transactions going over their network but I doubt that it will be open source. Maybe the code to operate a node will be open sourced but just that.
[ Parent | on HN ]