Still more tech journalism on Mastodon: "Mastodon cannot survive with such a silly name. It needs a more serious and business-friendly name, such as Google, Yahoo, or Hulu."
More tech journalism on Mastodon: "Mastodon is currently a free service, but soon it will bend to the iron will of Silicon Valley, which is that you either sell out to investors or become irrelevant like Wikipedia."
@maiyannah It's a hard problem. I work with browsers, and interoperability/compatibility is a huge topic of discussion. One project we started too late was a shared test suite (https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests). Maybe the federation needs some sort of equivalent to the W3C/WHATWG.
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