#interoperability: can we make it happen, despite #BigTech interests in status quo, whether it be on #IP front or other? Can’t wait to discuss this tomorrow with
Doctorow @pluralistic
“We want a web where willing listeners and willing speakers, willing sellers and willing buyers, willing makers, and willing audiences are all able to transact and communicate without worrying about their relationships being held hostage or disrupted to cram ‘sponsored posts’ into their eyeballs.”
Quick thought on interactions between micro-posting servers like Mastodon, and blogging servers like WriteFreely or WordPress.
What if a micro-post app receiving a long text as a post displayed each paragraph as a separate post in the UI, forming a thread? Replies to any of those separate posts would be received by the back-end as comments on the one post received.
I’m also struck by how much #interoperability can do to enable economies of scale/scope in digital markets with strong network effects, as a pro-competitive alternative to allowing a small number of mega-platforms to serially expand their monopolies from one market to another
I don't know anything about internet protocols other than that they exist and somehow enable this beautiful mess -- could I realistically read and understand something like the ActivityPub protocol? Is there a lay translation of it?
@mjc well, it isn't actually really non-technical, but the #ActivityStreams-Vocabulary spec mentions just ontology with textual explanation and JSON(-LD) samples.
When it comes to extending #ActivityPub - adding a vocabulary/ontology that supports body temperature or RBI - then doing so according to best-practices is still a bit tricky but can be done.
This month, #CollaboraOnline was featured on @osdc. The article highlights Collabora's excellent #interoperability with #Microsoft formats and mentions some recent features like #Sparklines in Calc or the dynamic font loading in Writer.
“behaviours from incumbent social media platforms may raise the barriers to entry by deterring new entrants from competing with Meta’s services, especially where Meta can impact their success through imitation or a denial or limitation of #interoperability” p.121 👏🏻
This is pretty much the scenario the new 🇬🇧 digital competition bill might let the @CMAgovUK block in future. Whether they will go further and impose “horizontal” #interoperability on Facebook is my top question… #DMCCBill
Bluesky: Two months after its launch, Jack Dorsey’s Twitter alternative comes to Android
Since his departure from Twitter in late 2021, co-founder Jack Dorsey has been working on an alternative to the microblogging site, now owned by eccentric billionaire Elon Musk. Bluesky was initially rolled out to iOS devices in February, and it’s now finally ...continues