Even though I’m on here, I honestly lurk most of the time and don’t fully understand the activitypub vs at protocol war. This was a great explainer that will reach a lot of people. Really appreciate a lot of David’s takes. I hope David and others at MKBHD become aware of and talk about Lemmy soon too.

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    I just don’t want to participate with Threads. i dont think they are good people. How do I fight that war?

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      I think leave if your instance federates. Vote with your feet, not much else you can do

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        🤷

        Just finished the video. The whole thing came across as fairly naive and seemed mostly focused on Threads and thinking about the fediverse as an extension/ only making it because of Threads. I think it should be noted that on both Mastadon and lemmy, the bigger players on the thrediverse, its specficially and culturally “against” the kind of ownership model that facebook brings to the table. Because of this i think Facebooks involvement deserves more scrutiny, specifically, if they think they can become dominant over the activity pub/ different federated apps development, they can take control.

        Which should be real concern for all of us. Meta is a bad company of effectively all bad faith actors. And I didn’t see anything challenging the underlying presumptions the portend these companies. What I saw was some tech adjacent content creators with one big name creator as anchor effectively discussing how to colonize the fediverse.

        My opinion is that we need free and open and un-owned spaces on the internet.

        I’m not interested in threads and I generally think we should distrust any large companies involvement in the threadiverse beyond simply having an account.

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          As much as fediverse development is centered on Mastodon and lemmy, and as much as I want them to succeed, Threads is bigger than both of them combined. FB used their monopoly to leapfrog the rest of the Fediverse here.

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              Yeah, that’s true. But if we consider “the Fediverse” to mean “internet forums that support Activity Pub”, then Mastodon is unforenot the biggest pleyer on the Fediverse in terms of user count, public impact, and funding.

              Of course, Threads can go fuck themselves. Open source communities have no obligation to play megacorps’ games.

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            Yeah see you’ve got the same brain-worm thing going on. Its like a disease.

            Its an attitude or an approach that is embedded in a world view which everyone on that panel displayed.

            Leapfrog the rest of the fediverse

            To do what? For what ends? Something that panel seemed fully incapable of was understanding why people are on the fediverse. Something I dont think you realize that you too are missing as well.

            Ask yourself: Why are people leaving spaces like Twitter for Mastadon? Why did we leave reddit (many of us who had been there for years) to hangout on a smaller, more diminutive lemmy?

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      Join an instance that’s already explicitly defederated from them (there are several). Or set up your own.