rabble on Nostr: I mean blaine made Twitter, the federated twitter over XMPP, and Webfinger which is ...

I mean blaine (npub1l49…z4au) made Twitter, the federated twitter over XMPP, and Webfinger which is the core of how identity works in the fediverse. Everyone was aware of prior art. All the core Bluesky people and the consultative group that created the Bluesky research paper were working on decentralized social protocols before Mike Masnick ✅ (npub14j8…pjuf) wrote protocols not platforms. That essay advocated for the work of many people. It helped tons, but didn’t start things.