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We kept losing, and will keep losing, because billionaire megacorps simply have the money to move worlds if doing so aligns with their ‘interests’ (ie money). This hasn’t changed, and won’t change now either; the Fediverse is done for.
Fuck Facebook for ruining another good thing.
Enjoy it while it lasts, and don't get too attached.
It's an inevitable aspect of what happens when the Internet is commercialized.
Something something French Revolution
ActivityPub won't ever "truly" die, it might lose the chance of becoming "the salvation from mega corporations running the internet" though. We'll always have the possibility of running small-ish, tight-knit instances.
But agreed, fuck Zuckerberg and his cronies.
I don't think it was ever going to be the salvation from mega corporations. The internet itself was touted as that, but corporations figured out how to capture and own most of it. No reason they wouldn't do the same thing for ActivityPub if it became as common place as the Internet itself.
Yup, capitalism pushes them to try to own/incorporate everything that can either be a threat or a resource for the business.
There's a long term silver lining though. People keep learning. Constant exposure to manipulation makes us more resistent to it. Consider how much the Internet has trained you to recognize scammers, salesmen, trolls, instigators, demagogues and so on.
Excellent take, thank you for this 👏
When people like Zucc get involved in anything and the appropriate amount of skepticism isn’t shown, you’re left with little reason to be optimistic.
Enjoy it while it lasts, and don't get too attached.
It's an inevitable aspect of what happens when the Internet is commercialized.