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Tag Archives: Twitter

Mastodon URIs, not URLs

One of the annoying things about Mastodon is that it’s tough to share Mastodon links and have them open in your favorite app instead of in a web browser. This is due to the lack of a shared scheme or a shared server—which makes sense for a distributed/federated system, but doesn’t help its usability. One […]

Why is Twitter not just Jabber?

Twitter is a way to post a short message to a wide group of subscribers, and to receive messages posted by a wide group of subscribers. That’s instant messaging. There’s already a standard protocol for it: Jabber (XMPP). Why not just use it? Why invent a new protocol?! Actually, Twitter already does have experimental XMPP […]