Aaron Parecki

you gotta admit this all makes Zuckerberg's steady hands on 18 years of unilateral power look commendable.

Can we just use SMTP for decentralized social networking? It already solves many hard parts: reputation & spam elimination, proven scale, rich content, DMs. What's missing: a standard way for followers to subscribe, a public profile/timeline, and a purpose-built client for users.

MySpace Tom, the only person who can bring society back into balance, has just entered the chat.

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If there's one thing I think we can take away from the last few years, it's that nobody — absolutely nobody — is ever playing 4D chess

no URLs. no usernames without the URL. no bypassing restrictions on URLs (like writing example dot com). no posting images with usernames in them.

free speech!

we’re baaaack! Twitter Blue is now available for $8/month on web or $11/month on iOS – we’ve made some upgrades and improvements 🧵

As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.

an incredible play in three acts