Yikes.

  • graphite@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t we want these big platforms to adopt ActivityPub?

    No. We don’t. The more hands they have in the fediverse pie, the more influence they have over it. The more influence they have, the more control. The more control, the more at the whim of their decisions you are. The more at the whim of their decisions, the more power they have over you.

    This should be common sense at this point.

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      1 year ago

      IMO this is such a shortsighted take and defeats the point of federation because of a knee jerk response.

      There is the potential for federation to grow massively with the injection of billions from big tech.

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        1 year ago

        There is the potential for federation to grow massively with the injection of billions from big tech.

        Sure, of course it would grow. But at what cost? And then who effectively owns it in the end? There’s an inevitable outcome - one that you apparently aren’t aware of.

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        1 year ago

        My take is that we should defederate them so that they don’t become the de facto instance in the Fediverse. That way, the Fediverse remains what it is now—open and truly decentralized. By defederating and discouraging them, we’re signaling to potential new users that they’ll be stuck in their own bubble.

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        1 year ago

        You may be right - perhaps it’s inevitable, one way or another. I don’t know.

        I’m passive at this point.