What’s email? A single, open network.
What’s the blogosphere? A single, open network.
What’s Twitter? A closed network.
What are ActivityPub, Matrix, and Diaspora? Multiple, unintegrated, but open networks.

"We are making standards to drive the technology that will connect the world’s encyclopedias in a single, open network."

Larry Sanger hasn't learned a damned thing from the Wikipedia debacle, or that a "single open network" is a contradiction. t.co/iR06vlUweK

— Dr. Hugh Akston (@DrHughAkston1) August 25, 2021