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Build a protocol specification instead, and we can have multiple competing implementations (like Email). This is what Jack Dorsey was suggesting.

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Based on cryptographic signatures.

If you signed your message with "This is a reply to msg 33419574 by dustedcodes. Signed: mejutoco", then nobody could take this converstion away from you. It would be federated by all competing services that use this protocal.

Sounds a bit like the Nostr protocol.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

Doesn't this already exist in the form of ActivityPub? Whether you're using Mastodon, Pleroma, WriteFreely, etc., you can interact with instances that use that protocol.

There's no way Jack doesn't know this already exists.

It's mentioned here: https://atproto.com/guides/faq

Honestly this project looks pretty interesting, and I hope it takes off. Want more decentralized tech without horrendous "defi" attached.

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