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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/571039

I saw this in another thread on /c/Showerthoughts. I think it's important for this to be circulated widely so that the broader Fediverse community is aligned. We don't want admins second-guessing their decisions when users start infighting. We should be united in our thinking and ready to protect our platform.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

MetivityPub - coming soon to a spam instance near you!

This is a great article thanks for sharing.

OOXML made me want to tear my hair out

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Super interesting and sobering. I’m hoping that ActivityPub proves to be a bit wily to be quite as easy a target.

The more I interact with the Fediverse, the more I’m finding myself in support of the project and seeing myself as a stakeholder. We need to get more non-dev users on board the fediverse before private capital swoops in.

[–] Thwompthwomp 6 points 1 year ago

The whole Internet just keeps getting more centralized, and controlled by corporate interests. I don't even know how you can setup a functioning email server these days. Google and MS have basically funneled all email through them at some point, just by how huge they are, and basically control what happens. All the old protocols have vanished years ago for www (and keep getting re-implemented). (RIP to gopher, usenet, irc--which I guess isn't fully dead yet).

My hope is that we're just going through a phase (we being the capital I Internet) and we'll break through and get things decentralized and distributed again, and make the Internet feel more fun. It's really just felt like another way to get advertisements and sell things to me, more than a way to connect to others and form communities.

Hopefully the fediverse idea continues to grow. It's got a lot going for it, ideal-wise.

[–] FiFoFree 2 points 1 year ago

That is an excellent write-up.