Eugen RochkoMy 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.
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.
Hadi@w3c @Gargron instead of hoping Meta take over it, can we hope Mastodon's owner adopt a business model to support this solution better? For instance, they can attract content creators by letting users subscribe to their streams, but because the content creators can launch their own servers here, the margins that current solutions in this category take could dramatically decrease, therefore, they would prefer Mastodon over Patreon, etc.
CoolBlenderKitten@CoolBlenderKitten @Gargron "Content creators" what?!
@CoolBlenderKitten @Gargron I didn't know that, and I still don't understand why, but sure! Here I was referring to the technology, business model, and its implementation. The marketing terms and phrases are beyond my point.
@hadilq @Gargron
Ok! Fair enough, sorry!
It's just that many people, especially here, don't like to be considered someone who just "feeds the machine", as I understand it. We are not anonymous "creators" to feed the ever hungry maw of commercial need, more to consume, more to see, more more more.
We are people who express ourselves through our art. There are probably many out there who enjoy the term, but here many find it offensive.
Don't know if I can explain it well, sorry if not 😀.
Ok! Fair enough, sorry!
It's just that many people, especially here, don't like to be considered someone who just "feeds the machine", as I understand it. We are not anonymous "creators" to feed the ever hungry maw of commercial need, more to consume, more to see, more more more.
We are people who express ourselves through our art. There are probably many out there who enjoy the term, but here many find it offensive.
Don't know if I can explain it well, sorry if not 😀.