ŚéáńInteresting comment on Hackernews regarding a possible scenario/long term risk should Mastodon threaten the corporate sphere of social media.
Paddez@fiercemilder I feel like the AGPL License protects Mastodon itself from a lot of this.
level 5 troon hazard@paddez @fiercemilder mastodon is AGPL licensed, but AP is an open spec. there’s nothing stopping a company from reimplementing. hell, loads of other free software has already reimplemented it (the fediverse is not just mastodon!). it would be trivial for FAANG to do so too
Lightning Bjornsson* 
@dangerdyke @fiercemilder @paddez I have considered writing an AP server in Tcl, and writing it so that to the client it is an email server.
@dangerdyke @fiercemilder @paddez you would thunderbird into your courrielpub, yes
I still haven’t figured out how I will support writing to followers, or approving followers, or writing public posts, or literally anything else
@lightning @fiercemilder @paddez i wonder if you could set it up to use different addresses on the instance’s “email” handle as endpoints of a sort: something like say, sending to [email protected] to post, [email protected] to follow, and so on
@dangerdyke @fiercemilder @paddez no, I fully intend on as many of the endpoints as possible being exactly equivalent to apub endpoints of the same name - could only use invalid apub endpoint names for control addresses.
@dangerdyke @fiercemilder @paddez a public posting would probably be posted to public%yourusername (or yourusername!public) at your.instance
@lightning @fiercemilder @paddez i wonder if you could use a subdomain for the user control endpoints then. or vice versa
@lightning @fiercemilder @paddez yeah, like [email protected] or something to follow someone, while [email protected] remains free for the AP endpoint
@dangerdyke @fiercemilder @paddez no, that would just overload an action.instance.example.com endpoint (let's use example.com for example endpoints ok?)
Lutin Discret@dangerdyke @lightning FYI mastodon and email are already bridged. @adbenitez did that via @delta
@lutindiscret @dangerdyke @fiercemilder @paddez that was Not the idea. The idea was, afaik, an Apub server whose UI was OFMIP and IMAP.
@lutindiscret @dangerdyke @adbenitez @delta @fiercemilder @paddez I think you misapprehend Delta Chat