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Григорий Клюшников

The idea with Smithereen is to basically let people who already know each other IRL communicate with each other. Without a loud TV in the background and without merchants constantly pulling them aside to sell something. That's the atmosphere of the old VKontakte.

Btw you can use a subset of HTML for text formatting. And hashtags aren't supported because there's no global search and I don't want a half-baked thing like Mastodon has.

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Antoine-Frédéric Raquin

Hi, indeed, I wasn’t sure hashtags would work, so it was worth testing. Thanks again for developing Smithereens; I’d like to help you but I’m not a developer… (I may help to translate the UI in French though, I’ll have plenty of time in the next weeks.)

Did you read this thread from @pluralistic@mamot.fr? It talks about Facebook, "natural monopolies", and switching costs: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106291052294150351

Григорий Клюшников

Antoine-Frédéric, now I did, and he's right, as usual. Adversarial interoperability is a beautiful thing. I'm thinking about allowing people to import their data from VK and Facebook in here. That would already go a long way. The unsolved problem, however, is the interoperability part itself. As in, how could we make it such that you could be using Smithereen, while still communicating with your friends on Facebook? They absolutely won't let that happen, even if I reverse engineer the app API or mimic a browser. They'll say that this puts people's accounts in danger or some other bullshit like that.

Antoine-Frédéric, now I did, and he's right, as usual. Adversarial interoperability is a beautiful thing. I'm thinking about allowing people to import their data from VK and Facebook in here. That would already go a long way. The unsolved problem, however, is the interoperability part itself. As in, how could we make it such that you could be using Smithereen, while still communicating with your friends on Facebook? They absolutely won't let that happen, even if I reverse engineer the app API or...

Antoine-Frédéric Raquin

Григорий, I’m sorry I haven’t replied earlier, because I was drowning in finals.

I don’t know if the new European #DSA law answers to your question? I’ve told @sl007@mastodon.social I’d document myself about it, but I still haven’t had the time yet.

Sebastian Lasse, redaktor.me

@af @grishka

Yes. It would.
Facebook is blackmailing the EU again like they did before, theguardian.com/technology/202
but that doesn't matter.
At the moment Facebook has “secret” talks with WTO in Geneva, anyway:
My mission is to build a good lobby for ActivityPub and again I want to emphasize that EU Tech Lea and Head of Unit “wants to learn about ActivityPub” which makes me happy.
En route via Fribourg to Strasbourg.

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