blaine
While I fully, really, completely get all the arguments on every side around Meta implementing ActivityPub, I'll confess to not understanding the profound concern that this will kill the fediverse.
Federated social media never "belonged" to anyone. Feel free to block Threads. Build disparate communities!
Or federate with them!
The network and power dynamics are not & will not be any way worse than they are now, or before Threaderation, or before Musk bought Twitter. They are only better*.
blaine
For me, the project of federation wasn't to create a global utopia, or even a local one — that's a project that no protocol or technology could possibly enable, and anyone selling that is a fraud.
In goal of federation as I see it is to give people choices; choices that were taken away by Facebook, mostly. That freedom ALWAYS implied a lot of hard work. It's going to be hard, and it's going to take a lot of work. I hope Facebook & others offer N-S-A/anonymous grants to enable some of that work.
Evan Prodromou
@andrewnez @blaine That's not how ActivityPub works. The big issue right now for small instances is when they include links; we need to start attaching link metadata to posts before they're distributed.
Andrew Nesbitt
@blaine I wonder if the extra activitypub requests from threads could smash a small mastodon instance into the ground if a post went viral on threads due to orders of magnitude increase in potential audience.
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