Do people on Twitter actually believe this shit?
Mastodon isn't one website.
It's just software that lets you send messages to the Fediverse.
Banning the Fediverse is like banning the web.
Actually, it's *exactly* like banning the web since ActivityPub is a W3C-backed web spec.
Maybe Elon Musk will ban Web 2.0 websites next -- since they use JavaScript, and JavaScript is used to track the whereabouts of his jet.
That makes about as much sense as banning ActivityPub.
Banning the Fediverse is the equivalent of killing your social network's future.
As in, this is the literal future of social media.
Mastodon itself just validates that this is where social media is going next.
Most future social networks will probably use ActivityPub -- and if they don't, they're kneecapping their network effect.
If Big Social doesn't get the memo about the Fediverse soon, they're as good as dead.
You know who else made this mistake regarding hostility towards web standards?
Microsoft.
At one point, Internet Explorer 6 owned over 95% of the browser market.
Now Microsoft browsers are an also-ran in the browser space.
Why is that?
Because Microsoft wasn't just slow about adopting web standards, they deliberately tried to kneecap them.
But people still wanted to use web standards, so Chrome, Safari, and Firefox took IE6's market share.
Big Social should learn from history.
Being a tech monopolist doesn't shield you from technological progress.
Tech companies keep trying to protect their cash cows.
But people don't care about your cash cows!
If their needs aren't being met, they will find another way to meet their needs.
Trying to ban technology is like trying to ban sex.
Sure, the powers-that-be pat themselves on the back for combating allegedly "deviant" behaviour.
But a ban stops nothing.
@atomicpoet If you don’t cannibalize your own product, someone else will.
Very few corporations gets that, they are conservative and protective.
They didn’t provide what at least some of us wanted, and I think more people are starting to want the same things too.
@jdp23 @atomicpoet the lesson Big Social have taken from history is that standards are what allowed Firefox and and Chrome to be created, and if you can undermine standards-based interoperability then you don't have to worry about the competition so much.
Standards enable competition, and are good for the consumer but not the supplier, and need to be enforced by an agency with teeth. Otherwise the dominant player du jour will always try to break compatibility in their own favour
@bencurthoys totally agree. "Messenger wars" between AOL, Yahoo, and MSN Messenger, and Google are another great example. Whoever was leading would resist opening up and break compatibility.
If only they had the faintest idea how swiftly and acutely the tide has turned.
Most innovators no longer use silo-platforms as a prime point-of-active-presence or interest.
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #OpenStandards #OpenWeb #WebWeWant
@atomicpoet "they're as good as dead."
Fine by me :)
@atomicpoet I get him not wanting his kid in danger, but the more I have read, the less it seems like that, and the more it seems like an epic mantrum.
Also how do you ban a protocol from social media?
@atomicpoet Its just propaganda meant to fuel the exclusion of a competing platform while their own sinks.
Masto isn't trying to be the "new twitter" or replace it; but clearly the on fire corporation is freaking out a bit about people realizing the monopoly is self imposed.
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