Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter

Re:Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter by mejutoco on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:42AM (#33419877)

Build a protocol specification instead, and we can have multiple competing implementations (like Email). This is what Jack Dorsey was suggesting.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter by Timja on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:49AM (#33419937)

Based on cryptographic signatures.

If you signed your message with "This is a reply to msg 33419574 by dustedcodes. Signed: mejutoco", then nobody could take this converstion away from you. It would be federated by all competing services that use this protocal.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter by NortySpock on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @08:35AM (#33420295)

Sounds a bit like the Nostr protocol.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

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Re:Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter by epsteinisntdead on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @08:01AM (#33420046)

Doesn't this already exist in the form of ActivityPub? Whether you're using Mastodon, Pleroma, WriteFreely, etc., you can interact with instances that use that protocol.

There's no way Jack doesn't know this already exists.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter by alexb_ on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @08:34AM (#33420292)

It's mentioned here: https://atproto.com/guides/faq

Honestly this project looks pretty interesting, and I hope it takes off. Want more decentralized tech without horrendous "defi" attached.

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