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Originally Posted by Fuzz
After looking into Mastadon more, it is the protocol I was describing. I think it's debatable whether it is a good enough implementation of the idea, but it's definitely the right direction. There all always going to be tradeoffs without a central command.
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Agreed. I don't know that Mastadon is a perfect solution. IMO, it tries too hard to be Twitter instead of something new. Looking at their github issues and some of the decisions they've made (search, emoji reactions, even the lack of a recommendation algorithm) has me thinking they're a little too dogmatic about some of their technology beliefs — rather than trying to make a less bad search they simply throw out search altogether.
It might be a good stopgap that leads us to the next big thing though.