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Re:What Is the Fediverse? by riffic on Thursday April 28, 2022 @04:17PM (#31197678)
it's amazing the international telephone system even worked at all.

ma bell was quite centralized but there were many attempts to get them to interoperate both domestically and internationally, even to the point of having a very rigorous regulation regime (nationalization too.)

Re:What Is the Fediverse? by strogonoff on Thursday April 28, 2022 @07:08PM (#31199363)
If we required all big social to interoperate (open complete APIs, etc.) it would solve a lot of woes.