I can't imagine why any "emerging" or new early social media network isn't built on open social web protocols from the ground up.

[tchambers@indieweb.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116380620230177371

I can't imagine why any "emerging" or new early social media network isn't built on open social web protocols from the ground up.

Doing anything else seems destined for failure and misses out the millions of users that could immediately engage in these new platforms from day one if they had simply built on open social standards.

[julian@activitypub.space]

@tchambers@indieweb.social it goes beyond social networks and into communities in general.

Forums, for example, need to reach a critical mass of users before they become self sustaining. Sometimes that number is 5, sometimes it's 500.

Leveraging the built-up fediverse community is a game changing way to get that critical mass much faster.