Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social network creators don’t trust it

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Reported today on The Verge

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Reported today in The Verge.

Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social network creators don't trust it

Yesterday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made a theoretically huge announcement: he wanted Twitter to stop being a self-contained platform and start delivering content from a decentralized system, changing social media as we know it. He kicked off the plan by announcing a project called Bluesky, which will fund the independent development of that system. But among many people who already work on decentralized networks, the response was a collective roll of the eyes. Twitter wasn't boldly stepping into new territory; it was stomping into an existing field with a lot of noise and very little detail.

As soon as Dorsey posted his plan, Mastodon - a decentralized social network founded back in 2016 - gave him the tweeted version of a sarcastic wave.

Jack... https://t.co/EolwJZagCj

Developer Darius Kazemi was even more direct. "I hear Twitter wants to invest in creating a new decentralized social media protocol, meanwhile a bunch of us are out here already doing the hard work," he tweeted, suggesting Twitter could help "approximately 1,000 percent more" by just donating to a few existing projects. Mastodon pointed Dorsey toward ActivityPub, an established protocol that already powers Mastodon and several similar projects.

Through the lens of these tweets, Bluesky's mission slotted right into a Silicon Valley cliche: a tech company "discovering" some long-standing problem and swooping in with a naive solution. But Bluesky's situation is a bit more complicated because Twitter hasn't actually committed to building a new system. In a follow-up tweet, Dorsey said the team might try to find an existing standard to move forward.

As we mentioned, the team will have comple



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