Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.

Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.

  • ScreaminOctopus
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    1 year ago

    This is basically correct, they could also create a scheme where they charge for federation and introduce it on short notice, similar to what reddit and Twitter did with their api. I think the best way to prevent this is to not federate with corpos, especially when they’ve been bad actors in other ecosystems like fb and Google.