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App.net State of the Union
We need protocols, not platforms. Unfortunately, it's 2014, and protocols are not sexy.
riffic
on May 7, 2014
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Unless you count the wave of innovation coming out of cryptocurrencies, which are really just protocols for managing a blockchain. A decentralised Twitter could theoretically be built with this model.
__david__
on May 7, 2014
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Isn't a decentralized twitter just email?
fzltrp
on May 11, 2014
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...With the exception that everyone can read every emails (or is there a private tweet feature with twitter?).
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