@hierarchon @lori I never paid attention to it because it looked like one more of those siloed systems that popped up after twitter started becoming whatever it is now.

Remember post by the way? What happened to that one?

But I read the report that was mentioned in the above post. It reads like an explicit admission that it was a terrible idea to begin with, without saying it was a terrible idea to begin with.

I wonder if they could salvage something by adding federation and then spebd their time on building something that makes them unique. I guess that's what facebook is trying with their new platform that is supposed to be federated.