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.
Look, instance admins can block whatever they want for any reason they want. It hurts your users but do you. And I'm not trying to argue that Facebook isn't a fucked up company. But actively working to discourage extremely skilled participants (and love them for hate them, FB engineers are VERY good) from contributing or associating with your open source protocol or community is just peak stupidity for people who claim in the same breath to want to remake and reset the social web.
Aaron@film_girl I can sympathize with wanting to take any big company embracing an open standard with a huge grain of salt, having seen plenty of instances, of "embrace, extend, extinguish.”
But I'd rather start from a point of a new service that's interoperable from the start and trying to compete and fight off shenanigans when we get there, than see a totally non-interoperable closed service that Facebook can afford to pump a ton of money into adding new users to.
@harpaa01 Skeptical and grain of salt are one thing. Actively calling for instances to boycott/defederate/block/ostracize any attempts to interoperate, let along contribute, are another.
Every single good and long-lasting open standard we have is partially if not substantially funded by for-profit companies. EEE is a boogeyman that has been much less successful for the companies that do it than most people believe and that has also led to better software for everyone