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   Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 09:43:19 JST Mike McCue

   The problem with building a closed social network is that it sets up an all or nothing premise for users. They might like some of the signature features but they'll leave if there's not enough people to network with. That's a shame and a huge barrier to innovation and new social products.

   The #fediverse changes that forever. People can now use the features they like from a mix of apps across a common network of people. This means we can take a whole new approach to how "social" and "media" should work including discovery, user experience and monetization that will be far healthier than anything we've had in the past.

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     Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 04:49:15 JST Mike McCue

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     • Tim Chambers
     • Johannes Ernst
     • Evan Prodromou
     • Mark Pesce

     @mpesce Good question. A bunch of people are working on that including @evan, @tchambers and @J12t. Making #activitypub easier to implement within iOS and Android apps could enable the kind of Cambrian explosion you're talking about.

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     Mark Pesce (mpesce@arvr.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 04:49:16 JST Mark Pesce

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     @mike Now what we are in need of is a 'Cambrian Explosion' of fediverse applications.

     It'll come - at some point... But how do we meaningfully lower the barrier to entry of that new class of Fediverse-all-the-things apps?

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     Mark Pesce (mpesce@arvr.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 08:40:34 JST Mark Pesce

     in reply to

     • Tim Chambers
     • Johannes Ernst
     • Evan Prodromou

     @mike @evan @tchambers @J12t that plus some nice application frameworks plus some outstanding apps to inspire and we'll be well on our way...