{"id":22724,"date":"2018-09-11T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22724"},"modified":"2023-07-13T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:52:03","slug":"the-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/the-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manton.micro.blog\/2018\/09\/07\/the-way-out.html\">Manton Reece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/manton.micro.blog\/2018\/09\/07\/the-way-out.html\">\n<p>We should be careful before copying everything from Twitter. I don&rsquo;t want to take features that failed us and recreate them in a new environment. Micro.blog <a href=\"http:\/\/help.micro.blog\/2018\/twitter-differences\/\">leaves out features on purpose<\/a> that we think undermine a healthy community.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Proprietary APIs reinforce the lock-in with content silos. This is why so much of Micro.blog is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/indieweb.org\/\">IndieWeb<\/a> standards. It&rsquo;s why Mastodon uses APIs like ActivityPub.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Some problems are inevitable when power is concentrated in only 2-3 huge social networks &mdash; ad-based businesses at odds with user needs and an overwhelming curation challenge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/mastodon\/\">Mastodon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/14\/the-struggle-for-twitter-alternatives\/\">The Struggle for Twitter Alternatives<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/11\/indieweb-generation-4-and-hosted-domains\/\">IndieWeb Generation 4 and Hosted Domains<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manton Reece: We should be careful before copying everything from Twitter. I don&rsquo;t want to take features that failed us and recreate them in a new environment. Micro.blog leaves out features on purpose that we think undermine a healthy community. [&#8230;] Proprietary APIs reinforce the lock-in with content silos. This is why so much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-09-11T19:52:25Z","apple_news_api_id":"2af29409-d4c6-492c-92f8-93cddfa65668","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-07-13T15:52:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKvKUCdTGSSyS-JPN36ZWaA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2430,1462,96],"class_list":["post-22724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-activitypub","tag-micro-blog","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22725,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724\/revisions\/22725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}