Christina WarrenSo the new Instagram text thing is reported to have ActivityPub support and instead of being happy at all the new labor that could potentially be coming to the standard, Mastodon people are now actively encouraging instances to not federate with any of that stuff. K.
Viss@film_girl you do remember cambridge analytica, right?
@Viss I mean, instances are free to do whatever they want! I'm just rolling my eyes at the same people that bitch that AP or Mastodon or fediverse don't have more adoption also immediately calling for trying to actively push out anyone who could possibly contribute and bring users.
@film_girl im supposing folks are willing to deal with lower DAU/MAU counts if the possibility of another cambridge analytica is prevented, since the people who did it last time are still there at meta, still doing their thing, and were never held accountable, despite being hauled into congressional and senate hearings multiple times.
@Viss And if those people want to make those trade-offs, that's fine. But then I don't ever want to hear them bitch about how no one pays attention to them or that the projects are so under-resourced and underfunded when they literally advocate against keeping skilled people out of their open source communities.