The hunt for the next Twitter: all the news about alternative social media platforms
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Will an app or a protocol be the next big thing?
  • can@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    That said, the “next Twitter” might not be decided by its app but by its protocol. Mastodon, for example, is built on top of ActivityPub, a W3C-recommended protocol for decentralized social networking, a protocol with support from Tumblr, Flipboard, and maybe even Instagram’s Twitter competitor Threads

    This is already very out of date.