Podcast: The internet of social media apps. How to make it possible for there to be lots of social media apps that we all use, without turning us all into copy/paste robots. We've been here before, with the internet itself and TCP/IP and the web with HTTP. The same process will yield a result that's good for social media users and developers, and will allow social networks to evolve without being dominated by the Silicon Valley cartel. We've been down that road, and we now know where it ends.16 minutes.#- As a user, I no longer want to have to visit five sites to see what's new. I no longer want to have to copy/paste my writing into those same five sites. #
- Each social net we belong to should have a feed coming out of it, virtually or for real, that contains a stream of all messages from accounts I'm subscribed to. How they do it behind the interface is up to each network, as with TCP/IP. #
- Each network must present the same highly-factored easy to support and impossible to break API with libraries for all major platforms. #
- It's up to each platform, or independent developers working on its behalf, to adapt their native protocol to the internet format. #
- Also -- see the podcast I did on this topic.#
- I definitely want Bluesky to just go away. I don't like it because if it gains traction it has potential of replacing Twitter as the festering turd in the middle of what should have been a vibrant growing market that keeps anything else from rising in competition with it. #
- To people who say "Oh Dave but it's federated and it has an open protocol" -- yes I've heard that, but there are all kinds of games you can play, such that even if it's true (and so far it isn't), no competitor ever rises, or as soon as they do, they are foreclosed on. #
- I don't like it because it's Jack Dorsey. You say "Oh Dave but Jack is just a board member" to which I say oh please, I wasn't born yesterday. #
- The only way out of this Jack-induced nightmare is for: 1. It to fail quietly and 2. Jack to sit the fuck down and do something other than plant huge turds in the middle of what should be a vibrant thriving open market, which means there are lots of entrants, choice, and opporunities for cooperation and innovation. #
- If having a license from The Jack is a requirement, well we've already wasted 17 years on Twitter waiting for that to become something wonderful and it's fair to say now that it never did and never will, so Jack please enjoy your wealth and play somewhere else and leave Twitter and post-Twitter alone. Thank you. #
- Also -- see The Internet of Social Media Apps. #
