Never really used Twitter. Created an account somewhere along the line, only ever posted a handful of messages, got declared a "bot" at one point by their automated systems (hah!), and then stopped posting shortly after that. Discord and dev.to's more my jam anyway.
Watching Twitter crash and burn from the sidelines is rather entertaining. We're all gonna need a very big bag of popcorn for this one.
On a related note, I'd like to see more ActivityPub servers (what Mastodon uses under the hood) written in other languages. Distributed social media seems better than centralized. A city, county, or state could run their own instance in whatever backend they currently use (e.g. ASP.net frontends and Java backends tend to be popular among government) and outside users can follow users on that specific instance. ActivityPub is an open protocol so anyone can roll their own client/server software from scratch if they want to.
Oddly, the specification for ActivityPub is fairly close in design to how email functions as it has all of the basic fields found in email headers. Someone looked at email and said, "Huh. I can remake that for the web." And ActivityPub was born. I wouldn't be surprised to see ActivityPub email gateways pop up for people who prefer using email clients.
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Never really used Twitter. Created an account somewhere along the line, only ever posted a handful of messages, got declared a "bot" at one point by their automated systems (hah!), and then stopped posting shortly after that. Discord and dev.to's more my jam anyway.
Watching Twitter crash and burn from the sidelines is rather entertaining. We're all gonna need a very big bag of popcorn for this one.
On a related note, I'd like to see more ActivityPub servers (what Mastodon uses under the hood) written in other languages. Distributed social media seems better than centralized. A city, county, or state could run their own instance in whatever backend they currently use (e.g. ASP.net frontends and Java backends tend to be popular among government) and outside users can follow users on that specific instance. ActivityPub is an open protocol so anyone can roll their own client/server software from scratch if they want to.
Oddly, the specification for ActivityPub is fairly close in design to how email functions as it has all of the basic fields found in email headers. Someone looked at email and said, "Huh. I can remake that for the web." And ActivityPub was born. I wouldn't be surprised to see ActivityPub email gateways pop up for people who prefer using email clients.