2023-06-28 UTC
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bkil So it was probably the instability of the architecture of Twitter up to 2008 that triggered various alternatives to emerge. Then some realized that reimplementing Twitter itself as FOSS would be akin to donating a free helicopter. Hence why they wanted to go a step further by providing for federation so as to allow self-hosters running cheap nodes to each chime in to the network bit by bit.