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Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Ghostalmedia to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why in the world are you cautiously optimistic? What would give you the idea that meta would do anything but what's in their shareholder's interest. My biggest question is, do we know if activitypub is secure enough to keep them out of its software?

[–] dumpsterlid 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t think it’s fair to preemptively assume meta is going to be evil here, where is the evidence?

If a bear was charging you that you had just watched murder a bunch of people would you just assume it was going to attack you? What evidence would you have for that?

Personally, I think large tech corporations have a wonderful track record with treating the public commons as a shared resource to nurture and maintain not a coal vein in the ground to ruthlessly extract :)