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What if emulating Twitter was a bad decision for federated social media
What if, instead: Federated MUD's
You spawn in a text-based adventure MUD on your own server, and you can go to other servers' text-based MUD's via in-game mechanics depending on the server in question
> look
You are in a room
> exit
You can't do that
> go door
You leave the room, and you are at a bus stop. List top 10 federated servers? (y/n)
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Published at
2026-10-18 15:11:18 UTCEvent JSON
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