On: Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard...

[RX14]

It's certainly decentralized, just federated instead of distributed.

And yeah, it sucks as a protocol (but not that badly, the standard is just weak like everything else the w3c produces) but it's better than reinventing the wheel. Or letting twitter unilaterally dictate a standard.

And please stop spamming the same message down the page.

[kick → RX14]

It's not better at all than reinventing the wheel. The wheel should be reinvented until someone makes one that isn't square.