Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward

I find it very hard to believe that Twitter has interest in creating a decentralized service that they can&#x27;t control content on or have sole ownership of advertising revenue.<p>I think they&#x27;re just trying to be the trendsetters so they can have the most control of it when decentralized social networks take off.

Jack Dorsey is a big advocate for decentralization and bitcoin enthusiast. Maybe he thinks he has made is money and is more thinking of his legacy.

I wouldn&#x27;t put too many high hopes that Twitter will do this correctly.<p>&gt; &quot;Twitter could also potentially do more good by contributing resources to existing projects&quot;<p>They could also potentially do more harm to existing protocols by coercing those and then dropping out when it doesn&#x27;t suits them.

Twitter, as a company, has a horrible track record in supporting the developer community. This seems like a good project on its face, but ultimately (IMO) serves as a distraction. While the paper released today is worth reading and the people on the team are sure to have good motivations, I wouldn&#x27;t get my hopes up on this.