Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, December 11th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough

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So I guess my running joke about who put the bee in Jack Dorsey's bonnet is kind of

running stale at this point.

This morning, Jack released a pretty ambitious Twitter thread, outlining how Twitter intends

to fund the development of a project known as Blue Sky, an independent effort to develop an

open and decentralized standard for social media.

Let me just quote, Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source

architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and

decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for

Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard.

Twitter was so open early on that many saw its potential to be a decentralized internet standard like SMTP, the email protocol,

for a variety of reasons, all reasonable at the time, we took a different path and increasingly

centralized Twitter.

But a lot has changed over the years.

First, we're facing entirely new challenges.

Centralized solutions are struggling to meet.

For instance, centralized enforcement of global policy

to address abuse and misleading information

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