>> It's the base-level social protocol that all other platforms are adjacent to ...

mvkel · on Dec 19, 2022

What I meant was if you were primarily on YouTube, you still had a Twitter.

On insta? You still had a Twitter.

LinkedIn? Twitter.

Blog/website? Twitter.

Everyone had a Twitter regardless of where their meat and potatoes content was.

rufus_foreman · on Dec 19, 2022

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wholinator2 · on Dec 19, 2022

I have no idea what _you're_ talking about. I feel like they've explained their point. What about it do you not understand/disagree with?

gonehome · on Dec 19, 2022

He’s just being intentionally obtuse, not worth engaging with that type of commenter.

I know it’s a bit of a trope, but HN has really declined. Lots of topics just have no valuable discussion here anymore and unfortunately anything Elon Musk related is one of them (anything cryptocurrency related is another).

reneberlin · on Dec 18, 2022

i think: http is meant.

The "link" is one or "the" feature that makes the whole thing work. And it is not meant to be restictive. You link to whereever you want. That was the idea of the WWW (tim bernes lee).

No restrictions at all in the base of the protocol. The opposite is true: everythink is and has to be inter-linkable.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol