@blaine Said it before, but I'll say it again: #ProtocolsNotApps. If we're to exchange information, let's agree on protocols to do it, not specific implementations.

(And for this argument, we can consider Twitter's API a cloud-hosted "implementation" that non-Twitter people cannot download and run on their own infrastructure.)

@IronCurtain @jschauma @pluralistic @mmasnick

Both… #ProtocolsNotApps and #ProtocolsNotPlatforms -- although realistically a platform is an externally-hosted application though. Just one you're not allowed to host yourself. So the latter is redundant. ;-)

@jschauma @pluralistic @mmasnick

> But Facebook has a new pitch. It claims to be called Meta, and it has demanded that we live out the rest of our days as legless, sexless, heavily surveilled low-poly cartoon characters.

Reminds me a lot of the Zager & Evans song "In The Year 2525".

Modern Internet annoys me we're too app/platform obsessed, we should support #ProtocolsNotApps. Otherwise history will repeat itself again.