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> Maybe we are long overdue for an open standard protocol for social interactions on the web

We have those. They are called websites and emails.



Yeah but most websites don’t directly talk to each other. And email only covers some of what social media platforms have. It’s difficult to make and plan an event over email. But if I could make an event on a discord-like client, and my grandma can get updates on facebook, and so on, that would be an improvement from what we have now


> ActivityPub

Problem is that platforms don't see any incentive in letting their APIs loose like this.




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