Gravatar, which has been humming along quietly serving hundreds of billions of avatars into every app you love like Slack, Github, ChatGPT, Atlassian, Coinbase… has a new API which allows people to bring in not just the avatar but more profile data. Check it out. Gravatar continues to be a useful Schelling point for the internet to allow to choose what they want to share and liberate their data from a single platform.
https://ma.tt/2024/06/gravatar-is-back/
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2024-06-09 21:25:05
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2024-06-09 21:25:05Event JSON
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