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I am building a network of twitter-like systems out of components of the web and nothing more. Every part replaceable.
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Fat protocols and venture capital

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By Dave Winer
| scripting.com
A quick post about fat protocols. I don't think they're right about this. Twitter could easily have been a fat protocol, and for quite a while the Union Square Ventures guys were pushing that idea. It's a platform! they said. Then they did what owned platforms so often do, they took it back. Oh no we never said it was a platform. We never encouraged anyone to build on it. So instead of a million apps, there was one. They'll do that with BitCoin too.
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Matthias Pfefferle (@pfefferle.org)

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By Matthias Pfefferle, Dave Winer, Namira McLeod
| bsky.app
This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Learn more about Bluesky at bsky.social and atproto.com. Matthias Pfefferle pfefferle.org did:plc:ug27jry5yq3ljscgvodxnic5 A #chat based on #RSS? Sure, why not: rss.chat And if so, I think there needs to be a #WordPress plugin to participate: https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-rss-chat /cc @scripting.com 2026-08-06T14:10:17.782Z
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Idea: P2P GOTV

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By Dave Winer
| scripting.com
Another idea... There ought to be a voter's social network. You create connections with people who live near you who are voting for the same candidate(s) you are in the upcoming election. You are responsible for making sure the other person actually votes. It's like peer-to-peer-get-out-the-vote. (The title of this piece.) A buddy system for voters. I bet the campaigns would love this. It helps increase the probability of people voting.
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