Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) writes:
"If adversarial interoperability still enjoyed its alt-era legal respectability, then Facebook alternatives like Diaspora could use their users' logins and passwords to fetch the Facebook messages the service had queued up for them and allow those users to reply to them from Diaspora, without being spied on by Facebook. Mastodon users could read and post to Twitter without touching Twitter's servers"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/altinteroperabilityadversarial
Not touching their servers? How would that work?
Misha
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2026-02-16 10:47:26 UTC
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