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[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Watch Meta try to patent the concept of Federation

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If anybody can patent it, it's the W3C who holds it.

Aaron Swartz was working on self hosted social media before ycombinator merged his product with what became reddit.

Facebook is a little too late to the game to get any credit.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Technically Mark was late to the game on social media* but he just fucked the guys over who made FB and took it for himself...