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@lupinia@infosec.exchange They don’t necessarily need us. I don’t remember who said that, but the ActivityPub decision isn’t necessarily a top-down decision from the Zuck or even a manager. Sometimes engineers and project managers just like an idea and want to try stuff and they get a okay from the management.

There is a very real possibility that they have NO IDEA yet how to monetize any of that and are just trying stuff (main objective is still to kill Twitter). Move fast, break things and think about the money later is also very facebook-like.

Maybe in 5 years they’ll realize that maintaining ActivityPub costs too much and they’ll cut it off. By that time the fediverse will have already grown multiple times the size of today. And if we get many power users and personalities maybe we can make it too costly to cut us off. As in they can’t afford to loose the connection to those users. Then they’ll truly need us.