2 years ago

This is not the first time social media giant https://www.twitter.com has been besieged by would-be open source competitors. But standing up a federated, open source equivalent free from corporate influence may be more difficult than one might image.

What were the technical, and social challenges to running a social media service, especially an open source federated one?

Definitely Twitter was the genre-defining site at the time, and a lot of the people using StatusNet approached it from that perspective.

My team at StatusNet had built our interoperability on the open social stack that was in vogue at the time.