On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 08:19:18PM +0100, Alberto Cammozzo wrote:
"Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard," Dorsey tweeted.
... e dopo migliaia di risposte che in risposta gli chiedevano perché gli standard (e.g., ActivityPub del W3C) e le implementazioni (e.g., Mastodon) già esistenti non andassero bene almeno come base di partenza, finalmente l'account del team Twitter in divenire si è degnato di scrivere: As we mentioned, the team will have complete freedom to identify and consider all the great work already done, and if they believe it’s best to work on a pre-existing standard 100%, they will. If not, they’re free to create one from scratch. Their discretion, not Twitter, Inc’s. https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1204916413980233728 Non è molto promettente, ma almeno riconosce che se reinventeranno la ruota lo faranno deliberatamente. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . zack@upsilon.cc . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »