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linksbro | 3 years ago

Hive just shut down their entire app: https://twitter.com/TheHIVE_Social/status/159811907190799155...

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To be fair to them... thats a brave step for a startup to take. So many would try to stay quiet and fix the issues behind the scenes (hell, giant companies try this attempt all the time!). They made the right move here.

NB, I don't use Hive and have no interest, I moved to Mastodon because I want to be in control of my data moving forward.

rideontime|3 years ago

it would have been brave if they'd done so when they were alerted to the issues. doing so once they've been made public? not so much.

joe_the_user|3 years ago

Of course and ironically, I can't tell whether this is the real Twitter of Hive.

I wonder if I'll be able to determine the real Hive of Twitter if things switch.

sacrosancty|3 years ago

Same problem their website has. And every website. You can still find out who someone is without relying on the platform to to the identity checks.

riffic|3 years ago

haha the only ethical alternative is the ActivityPub ecosystem.

If that (Mastodon or other implementations) are not good enough, make your own or get involved with the W3C to standardize AP v2.