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How tragic, I thought, to reduce life to a procession of microtransactions or contracts. How naive to believe that some agreed-upon set of values could be formalized into code, or that the problems of politics could be made irrelevant by computation.
Twitter is pursuing a form of decentralization championed by a former employee. Read more about the transformation on Boston.com.
In 2008, the handful of employees working for Twitter reached an impasse. Some were focused on preparing for a surge of new users to their social media platform. But one developer argued for another approach: Their platform, he said, shouldn’t be a platform at all.
Twitter wants to reinvent itself, by merging the old with the new
Hardly at all.