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A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)
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When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon".

But on July 14, @alexeheath of the Verge reported that Meta's saying ActivityPub integration's "a long way out". Hey wait a second. Make up your mind already!

From the perspective of the "free fediverse" that's not welcoming Meta, the new positioning that ActivityPub integration is "a long way out" is encouraging. OK, it's not as good as "when hell freezes over," but it's a heckuva lot better than "soon." In fact, I'd go so far as to say "a long way out" is a clear victory for the free fediverse's cause.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Human history. The oldest history of humanity we have is the Sumerians. From that time on every large group of people formed a government. Babylon. Arkadian. Egyptian. Greek.

Other forms of government are tribes. Hunters. Gatherers. Those are tribes.

Show us people that didn't have a form of government and we'll be impressed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I see, if you define government as “any collection of humans,” than yes, it’s always been extant.

What I meant, however, was a group of rulers that use force to compel others to do what they would otherwise not.

Written history is also a blip terms of the duration of the history of humanity, too. Something like 1%. We can access some of the rest via anthropology.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. Those types of people have always been around. Have you never read history before? You can aCkuALY all you want to, I don't care. I'd rather you left that shit attitude at reddit, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, that’s just the point - the types of people have been around for awhile, but the institutions supporting them — backing militias, basically — have not.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't continue with this conversation simply because of how ignorant you are. I'm not here to argue with you over the dumb things you feel are gotcha points. You are not as clever as you think you are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're out of line. If anyone has the reddit attitude of casting aspersions rather than rebut effectively, it is you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not here to rebut anything, much less effectively. I'm not the person trying to argue dumb things for no reason.

If you're looking for the debate team club, this isn't it.