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Why not ActivityPub?

because it's not built on crypto, and Jack wants to control a new coin a la Libra

why does Twitter need to be built on crypto? Ugh.

This brings to mind the (truthfully) quite useless Minds.com social network. Twitter doesn't NEED a blockchain. Just look at Pleroma, Mastodon, or Gab to see p2p twitter replacements that are blockchain-free.

It doesn't sound like he's ruling it out explicitly; presumably, it will be something for the team to evaluate.

Of course, plenty of reasons to be sceptical about them either going with ActivityPub, or not.

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