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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (42 children)

But why? Isn't the whole point of federation that we can interact with people in other communities? Don't we want these big platforms to adopt ActivityPub? Completely walling them off seems counterproductive

Not defending Meta, just curious

[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

this is why

there is a very good chance that this project by meta is the thin end of the wedge

(edited to include "the blogpost", link here)

[–] SulaymanF 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

What’s the alternative? They go with a non activity pub system and woo away all our users anyway?

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