Hardware Podcasts

Leaving Twitter with Tim Bray

Oxide and Friends · 29 Nov 2022 · 1h 12m · Episode 36

What this episode covers

Tim Bray, along with hosts Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, discusses his decision to leave Twitter following Elon Musk's acquisition, citing poor engineering leadership, the rise of extremist content, and the platform's descent into a 'hellscape.' The group analyzes the technical and social implications of moving to Mastodon and the ActivityPub protocol, debating whether federated social media can replace Twitter's role as a real-time public square. They also touch on the scalability challenges of Mastodon, the potential for news organizations to host their own instances, and the future of open protocols in social networking.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Twitter, SmugMug, Sun, Oracle, Intel, IBM, Reddit
Products
Mastodon, Pluroma, Hacker News, Blue Sky, Tumblr, Flickr, Gmail, WhatsApp, RabbitMQ
Also
Elon Musk, ActivityPub, Elixir, Erlang, Rails

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