Messaging services— whether Twitter-like or Discord-like—should be built on open protocols, the way email is.
https://twitter.com/AriannaSimpson/status/1465705420970885136
“But how do people make money?“
Hundreds of billion dollar businesses have been built on SMTP (and of course HTTP).
Hundreds of billion dollar businesses have been built on SMTP (and of course HTTP).
“What about spam and other bad things?”
As with SMTP and HTTP, we have legal system, plus providers (gmail etc) can filter (but are constrained from turning evil because the user switching costs are low).
As with SMTP and HTTP, we have legal system, plus providers (gmail etc) can filter (but are constrained from turning evil because the user switching costs are low).
“But this didn’t work in year [yyyy]”
That’s true of almost every tech idea that eventually works :)
Plus we have many new tools now, including 1) a way to store information on the internet where the user instead of a company controls it, and 2) a new way to fund protocols.
That’s true of almost every tech idea that eventually works :)
Plus we have many new tools now, including 1) a way to store information on the internet where the user instead of a company controls it, and 2) a new way to fund protocols.
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