<story><title>Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022</title><url>https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1575588277700026368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kethinov</author><text>It frustrates me that Jack seems to have genuine interest in this topic but seems to be totally averse to discussing Mastodon. It&amp;#x27;s hard to believe he&amp;#x27;s unaware of Mastodon, so we have to believe he thinks it&amp;#x27;s not the solution for some reason. But how could it not be? Why doesn&amp;#x27;t he just use his big name and significant influence to throw his weight behind Twitter&amp;#x27;s most successful open protocol competitor if he really wants this? None of it makes sense to me and I wish he would speak more plainly on the matter.</text></item><item><author>brethil</author><text>Is he talking about ActivityPub[1, 2] and the Fediverse[3]?&lt;p&gt;Just look at Mastodon[4, 5] if you&amp;#x27;re looking for something like twitter without the centralization and the corporate greed.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;ActivityPub&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;ActivityPub&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;activitypub.rocks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;activitypub.rocks&lt;/a&gt;
[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Fediverse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Fediverse&lt;/a&gt;
[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mastodon_(software)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mastodon_(software)&lt;/a&gt;
[5] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;joinmastodon.org&amp;#x2F;servers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;joinmastodon.org&amp;#x2F;servers&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rglullis</author><text>The problem is that he is trying to monetize the distribution of content. All his talk about decentralization is pointless, because he &lt;i&gt;wants&lt;/i&gt; a system where there are gatekeepers, the only difference from Twitter (or Facebook&amp;#x2F;Google) is that in his view these gatekeepers should be baked into the protocol. It would be comical if it wasn&amp;#x27;t diabolical.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022</title><url>https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1575588277700026368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kethinov</author><text>It frustrates me that Jack seems to have genuine interest in this topic but seems to be totally averse to discussing Mastodon. It&amp;#x27;s hard to believe he&amp;#x27;s unaware of Mastodon, so we have to believe he thinks it&amp;#x27;s not the solution for some reason. But how could it not be? Why doesn&amp;#x27;t he just use his big name and significant influence to throw his weight behind Twitter&amp;#x27;s most successful open protocol competitor if he really wants this? None of it makes sense to me and I wish he would speak more plainly on the matter.</text></item><item><author>brethil</author><text>Is he talking about ActivityPub[1, 2] and the Fediverse[3]?&lt;p&gt;Just look at Mastodon[4, 5] if you&amp;#x27;re looking for something like twitter without the centralization and the corporate greed.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;ActivityPub&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;ActivityPub&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;activitypub.rocks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;activitypub.rocks&lt;/a&gt;
[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Fediverse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Fediverse&lt;/a&gt;
[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mastodon_(software)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mastodon_(software)&lt;/a&gt;
[5] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;joinmastodon.org&amp;#x2F;servers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;joinmastodon.org&amp;#x2F;servers&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neilalexander</author><text>Bluesky performed a months-long discovery exercise of existing solutions and Mastodon was amongst them.</text></comment>