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> @Discourse shares #Fediverse focus on openness, decentralization and data ownership. That's why we have invested in establishing #interoperability via #ActivityPub, we see it as a natural extension of our values and an important step towards a more connected, open web.

> Whether you're sharing announcements, hosting technical discussions, or collaborating across communities, federation makes it easier to extend your reach and engage with users where they already are.

blog.discourse.org/2025/04/dis

Discourse · Discourse and the Fediverse!The Fediverse offers ways to expand the reach of Discourse communities and help them build bridges with people active in other spaces, all while keeping the conversation civil, meaningful and focused.

I have two hypotheses why the conventional IO/competition economics view of #interoperability understates its benefits, perhaps due to slight technological complexity in understanding its potential:

1. Fully interoperable tools can be plugged together in all sorts of unexpected combinations. See eg #Unix or #bridgyfed

2. Interoperability lets a single function (eg auto-translation) be developed once in a single tool, then applied across a range of interoperable services. /1

I'm hiring a PhD student in Copenhagen, Denmark to do #HCI research on #privacy and #interoperability in messaging apps!

This is a fully funded 3-year position in the Copenhagen campus of Aalborg University. The student will join my project "mInt" (for "messaging interoperability" ;)) and will be co-supervised by me and @nielsvanberkel .

More info and application form here: stillinger.aau.dk/phd-stilling. Deadline is May 18.

Aalborg UniversitetPhD Stipend in Human-Computer Interaction Principles for Messaging InteroperabilityThe PhD position is supported by the project mInt:  Human-centered design principles for effective management of social boundaries in interoperable t...
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‘Importantly, the #CJEU ruled that facilitating #interoperability with the platform may involve development costs. In such cases, the dominant undertaking may be allowed to recover the costs it incurred by imposing FRAND fees once the development has been completed.’

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‘The permissible length of such a period will differ from case to case and must strike a balance between the needs of the undertaking requesting interoperability and the technical challenges facing the dominant undertaking. In other words, the absence of built-in #interoperability serves only as a temporary basis for permissible refusal.’ 👍

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