Re: Meta and ActivityPub

Given the scale of Meta/Facebook, if they ship with Activity* they will
probably end up controlling the future of these protocols since they will
be the largest providers.

If this community doesn't get invigorated and start actively working hard
on addressing existing issues with these protocols, any hope for community
influence will probably be lost.

bob wyman


On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:02 AM Sean O'Brien <sean.obrien@yale.edu> wrote:

> This looks like an attempt to dampen the press response to BlueSky's beta.
>
> Strange bedfellows indeed.
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> Sean O'Brien
> Visiting Lecturer (Cybersecurity), Yale Law School
> Fellow, Information Society Project at Yale Law School
> Founder, Privacy Lab at Yale ISP, https://privacylab.yale.edu
>
> On 3/9/23 23:50, Johannes Ernst wrote:
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> Hell is freezing over. Meta - That META! -- is said to build a social app
> that supports ActivityPub.
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> References:
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> * https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-is-building-a-decentralized
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> *
> https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mulls-a-twitter-competitor-codenamed-p92-that-will-be-interoperable-with-mastodon-10223961.html
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> Tied into Instagram.
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> The ramifications of that constitute the next 6 months of homework for the
> reader.
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>
> Best, if at all possible,
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>
>
> Johannes Ernst
> Blog: https://reb00ted.org/
> FediForum: https://fediforum.org/
> Dazzle: https://dazzle.town/
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