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The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by kinther to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article makes a good point: academics/researchers are in a good position to build federated systems. They have slightly different needs than the population in general, but they've built good stuff in the past (eg smtp and http).

I don't think many academic application protocols have hit widespread adoption since HTTP. Would Napster count? lol

[–] essteeyou 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HTTP did pretty well though. :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Pretty well. 😂