Tristan LouisJun 20, 2023

The anti-Meta #Fedipact can only achieve one thing: make sure that #ActivityPub loses to the Bluesky protocol. Is that what people here want?

As an #openweb advocate, I don't.

Meta joining the Fediverse is like AOL joining the internet: something that will bring a mass amount of people in, create some friction, but ultimately make the net better as more people federating on #Mastodon, #kbin, #lemmy, #pixelfed and other parts of the Fediverse make open protocols that much stronger.

Show threadEnkiusz🇺🇦
@TNLNYC how can you predict all of this? Let me pitch an alternative scenario: https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html how do we prevent this from happening?
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne

Jun 21, 2023 at 11:54amWeb
Show threadTristan LouisJun 21, 2023
@enkiusz that 2nd footnote gives me pause on his argument. That said, the parallel is that your message to someone on Meat's instance won't go through..so that's the same as defederating them. In other words, you're looking to do to them what you're worried they might do to you.