Communication Needs Open Standards and Open Data
Standards are imperative
This author (yours truly) quit Twitter about 5 years ago, just like the sister site did. Yes, prior to that I would comment or "engage" with people there; at some point I realised this was worse than a waste of time and nearly 4 years ago I dumped all of those things, never to return or even feel regret/remorse. The only regret I had was, I should have quit a lot sooner.
The world is moving on.
Since then, all the things that I quit only became more of a "----show" and some shut down completely, permanently, even abruptly (short notice or no notice at all!). There are better things than JavaScript "webapps" and 'phone' "apps" where clunky interfaces enable interaction in a cumbersome, non-standardised fashion. Aside from Gemini Protocol we still have IRC, which turns 40 in a few years (it withstood the test of time, unlike proprietary ICQ).
There's also a conclusion somewhere in there. An associate spoke this week "about the need for decentralization in open data."
With IRC, like with E-mail, everyone gets to keep everything (locally) in a standard and widely supported format. With Gemini Protocol, many potent clients exist and it's very simple, there's no bloated JavaScript anywhere.
Days ago in our IRC network somebody told us that our sites work perfectly well with an old (1990s) Netscape browser, unlike the "old" sites we had running WordPress (even 2006 technology was no longer compatible with Netscape).
Keep things simple. Keep things open. █