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The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore (blogs.lse.ac.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by kinther@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The article makes a good point: academics/researchers are in a good position to build federated systems. They have slightly different needs than the population in general, but they've built good stuff in the past (eg smtp and http).

I don't think many academic application protocols have hit widespread adoption since HTTP. Would Napster count? lol

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

HTTP did pretty well though. :-)

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah. Pretty well. 😂