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   Erlend Sogge Heggen (erlend@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2023 23:31:28 JST Erlend Sogge Heggen

   #P92 is equal parts scary and exciting. What gives me hope is that while the product is dictated by the deeply untrustworthy #Meta company, it’s being developed by engineers who are amenable to the #OpenSource ethos, as evidenced by React, Docosaurus, RocksDB, PyTorch, LLaMA etc.

   If you believe in the #fediverse like I do, you’ll see we have a far more compelling story for fellow techies to come along with. If we make it easy for them to do the right thing, it’s harder for Meta to do wrong.

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     Erlend Sogge Heggen (erlend@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2023 23:31:25 JST Erlend Sogge Heggen

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     I see #P92 as the best opportunity I’ll ever get to bridge my own social network presence with that of my less techy friends.

     We know Meta will attempt an EEE play, but what if we play the reverse UNO card and EE(E) them instead?

     Embrace: Carefully federate in a minimum-viable fashion that doesn’t overrun the existing #fediverse

     Extend: Make #NomadicIdentity a reality, so accounts can be moved effortlessly.

     Extinguish: In case of misconduct, defederate and provide mass-migration assistance.

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     Erlend Sogge Heggen (erlend@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2023 23:31:26 JST Erlend Sogge Heggen

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     With the benefit of hindsight, we can approach the #P92 network with #fediverse resiliency top of mind.

     Interoperability on our terms, in service of the open social web, can steer this movement in the direction of another positive-sum React story.

     Fb wants to eat Twitter using our open protocol. Let them.

     Yes, eventually they’ll want to eat us too, but knowing what’s coming we can build preventative safeguards, and they’ll have no choice but to amicably coexist with other fedizens.

     Børge repeated this.
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     Erlend Sogge Heggen (erlend@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2023 23:31:27 JST Erlend Sogge Heggen

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     When #facebook first came out with React, I was super suspicious. I’d been directly affected by their XMPP/Jabber bait & switch, and was expecting a similar play. But React turned out to be one of the most popular open source projects in history, in large part thanks to Fb’s custodianship.

     The product dynamics of #P92 is closer to XMPP than React, but on the other hand #ActivityPub is an inherently more connected and coordinated (albeit loosely) network than XMPP was, because it’s one big room.