Tim Chambers: A Quick Snapshot of the Microblogging Landscape

I like Chambers' vision: Mastodon should evolve to be easier to use, like Linux evolved into Chromebooks. BlueSky and Mastodon should become more interoperable. Threads should fully adopt ActivityPub. Ultimately, microblogging — and blogging! — should become one big thing, like email, where the underlying platform and protocols are unimportant.

Tumblr can continue to be Tumblr, and that’s OK. Matt Mullenweg said the platform would embrace ActivityPub two years ago, but that’s the last we heard of it. I don’t think he meant it; he just blurted it out without considering it.

h/t @manton