I think this is their attempt to EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) the Fediverse, so I’m strongly in favour of immediately defederating corporate instances as soon as they are created.
Given how federation works (and my limited understanding of it) I believe not much will change, since they simply can’t Extinguish. It’s all federated into different instances under different moderation teams. They hold no ‘ultimate control’ over anything beyond their own instances
I also have limited understanding, but these are huge corporations with huge userbases. If they start giving “helpful” input on how the ActivityPub protocol should develop, it may exert a strong pressure/influence due to their sheer size.
I know it’s not the same situation, but it reminds me of how Google keeps trying to push shady stuff into Chromium, even though it’s supposed to be free, open-source software.
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I think this is their attempt to EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) the Fediverse, so I’m strongly in favour of immediately defederating corporate instances as soon as they are created.
Yup, I think so. That’s why I gave OpenID and XMPP as examples.
Tumblr wouldn’t be much of a deal but if Zuck gets Activitypub integration working that would be a huge pain in the ass
Given how federation works (and my limited understanding of it) I believe not much will change, since they simply can’t Extinguish. It’s all federated into different instances under different moderation teams. They hold no ‘ultimate control’ over anything beyond their own instances
I also have limited understanding, but these are huge corporations with huge userbases. If they start giving “helpful” input on how the ActivityPub protocol should develop, it may exert a strong pressure/influence due to their sheer size.
I know it’s not the same situation, but it reminds me of how Google keeps trying to push shady stuff into Chromium, even though it’s supposed to be free, open-source software.