• Helix@beehaw.orgOP
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      We have the power over ActivityPub

      Who is ‘we’? And who doesn’t say that there’s something on top of activitypub?

      Plus, if they do create cool features, why would we not also add them?

      Because we don’t have multiple thousands of paid developers.

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        Because we don’t have multiple thousands of paid developers.

        Having worked at a company with thousands of developers, that’s a significant advantage for us.

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        One of the “powers” of OSS is that the license usually required changes to be fed back upstream.

        If Meta were not to do that the authors of Lemmy could ask someone like EFF to take legal proceeding against them.

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      If there are some big players (like in email), i think the biggest risk is that the big players would end up only talking to each other.

      Similar to email, where a random host is likely to be spamming, that might happen here too. (Although I’m not that familiar with the protocols here)

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        @CanadaPlus this is referring to far in the future. In the long scale of things, developer time is not so limited. Fedi doesn’t necessarily have a time limit after all, it’s just going to go stronger over time. I don’t see a stopping point.

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          Ah. Yes, in the asymptotic future limit everything can be implemented twice as long as there’s social opportunity to do so. I wonder if that applies back to Gmail as well, will we see an open-source federated G-suite?

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      In the Fediverse you are still 100% under the control of whoever runs the server. Your user accounts can’t move between servers. There is no easy way to export communities and import them on other hosts. On top of that, all the federated features are completely optional and can be switched off.

      Fediverse really doesn’t offer any securities beyond what a plain old Web forum does, all the federation aspects depend on everybody playing nice with each other.

      At the moment even basic GDPR conformity isn’t given, as there is no way to export all your data from an instance, a deletion request for your data also doesn’t seem to be guaranteed to make it to other instances.

      If Facebook builds something with ActivityPub and it gets popular they can play the whole embrace, extend, and extinguish game from start to finish.