I think (and have been saying this a bunch lately) that he's right about ActivityPub and Mastodon, and that "a universal timeline" is actually a really good way to put words to it. I was a Mastodon hater for years, but having used it for the past month or so with an actual community of people (really: the whole community I interacted with on Twitter before), I have to admit it: the ActivityPub people were right about this. It's easy to see the potential, and how it pulls in the writing we were all doing before there was Twitter while keeping most of what Twitter was good for too.
I'm expecting this to be the second-dumbest thing I ever predicted badly (I dismissed MP3s, too!)
I'm expecting this to be the second-dumbest thing I ever predicted badly (I dismissed MP3s, too!)