Anyone in the mood for some warm, tasty protocol soup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13306707

@ultimape i have hope that the collective consciousness of humanity increasingly remembers things like xmpp / google reader / twitter protocol, etc, and eventually stop falling for the lucy football thing re: long-term federated services and centralized companies that offer better UX.

funny you should mention gnu social here; there's a complicated history here, and mastodon/gnu social people already are quite schism'd and don't super get along (from what i understand)

mastodon is at an interesting, precarious intersection between basic UX minimum requirements and long-term political architcture wins (federation). user experience is _going_ to suck for any platform not funded by VCs and huge teams of full-time UX gurus, but the price you pay for that is your souls (advertising needs and eventually censorship)