@daringfireball Openness isn’t merely a protocol thing. It’s a delicate power balance.

When an entity larger than all other combined joins, it may become "too big to fail" and start dictating terms.

Gmail unilaterally dictates who can use SMTP. GitHub became the center of decentralised git. Systems tend to centralise.

@kornel @daringfireball Yes, and the way to fight with GMail isn’t to “block” gmail from other email services. That hurts the other email services, not Gmail.

Meta’s threads doesn’t *need* ActivityPub. It has Instagram’s far larger network. Blocking them from your mastodon instance only hurts you, not them. It resigns Mastodon to forever being that weird niche rather than part of the mainstream.

Integrate and use it to make yourself mainstream!

@Oozenet @kornel @daringfireball That argument is no different from saying that Mastodon support the Alt-right because Gab, Truth Social etc are built on Mastodon.

Just because a product, due to incompetence, was used by fascists to commit genocide, it doesn’t mean that the project owners “support genocide”.

@Oozenet @kornel @daringfireball You can again say the same about Mastodon. All of Truth Social exists today and is actively causing damage.

Talking about Facebook, it was basically the only non-government controlled media platform in all of Myanmar. A large percentage of the content on it was propaganda. But 100% of the content elsewhere was propaganda.

It’s not so simple.

@nmn @kornel @daringfireball It is super simple. FB knew what was happening and chose to do nothing about it because $.

I am not federating with Truth social either.

@Oozenet @kornel @daringfireball “It’s simple, Mastodon (the company) knows what’s happening using its code on Truth Social and is choosing to do nothing.”

How smart does that sound?

@nmn
You seem to be miss the “open source” part of this conversation.

@Oozenet @kornel @daringfireball