As much as I dislike Google, I think this is the right call. The idea of being able to copyright an API seems like it would have dire consequences for software development.

The best thing that can happen is sponsored tweets so severely limit what little usefullness twitter has that it puts the final nail in the coffin.

I appreciate what Gab is trying to do, but the dude's framing and language don't do him any favors. Normies are never going to voluntarily migrate to a platform while he's making claims that big tech is serving Satan. Comes off as unhinged.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but what stops a malicious actor from inserting contraband, say CP, onto a highly trafficked site implementing this protocol and effectively making every user a distributor of that contraband? IANAL, but it seems like most laws on the books punish distribution much more than possession.

Did they just reinvent Usenet?