Eugen RochkoDec 16, 2023
My wife is looking forward to deleting her Instagram account once she can connect with the same folks from her Mastodon account. Being able to remain in touch with over 100M people who still use Meta products out of the comfort of an ad-free, privacy-friendly platform like Mastodon is a game changer.
Show threadEugen RochkoDec 16, 2023
I hope that an organization as massive as Meta adopting #ActivityPub will send a signal that pushes Tumblr and other platforms that have been considering it over the edge in doing the same. Perhaps even Bluesky would consider replacing or at least supplementing their custom protocol with the @w3c standard for interoperability.
Show threadOrbitalMartianDec 16, 2023
@Gargron @w3c but then you have the issue of big tech companies being able to access some data about users who many joined the Fediverse on whole (not just Mastodon) to get away from that exact thing.
Show threadMatunosDec 16, 2023
@orbitalmartian @Gargron @w3c what's stopping them now?
Show threadOrbitalMartianDec 16, 2023
@matunos @Gargron @w3c without any federation, we won't have our (limited as it may be) data divolged to them, whereas once they do have the ActivityPub federation, they will have the access to that within their own platform.
Show threadTadeo D'Oria

@orbitalmartian @matunos @Gargron @w3c Even if Meta were not to join now, if the Fediverse and ActivityPub become more and more popular over time (which in general I think it's something we'd all prefer over the current state of the internet), I don't see a future in which large companies don't have our data

We all want open standards, but we need to understand that open standards also allow that sort of misuse if not accompanied with legislation, there's no way to both have our cake and eat it

Dec 16, 2023 at 11:40pmWeb