- From: hellekin <hellekin@cepheide.org>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:40:33 +0100
- To: public-swicg@w3.org
Meta (and others) will definitely try to embrace - extend - extinguish ActivityPub. One thing that Europe can do is to enforce the GDPR and force them to implement the export profile feature, so that people can get away from their grasp and embrace other (free) systems in the Fediverse. That's the nice picture. But indeed, as the AOL experience shows, a flood of users with a very different and somewhat incompatible culture will fragment the Fediverse and may well force the early adopters away from it, into other less polluted networks (e.g., based on XMPP+OMEMO+ERIS or Gemini). At some point we could use ValueFlows (although I still have some issues with transactional systems) to embrace a self-reinforcing cultural value system that will eventually trump centralization. But here as well there are actual issues with how far the Fediverse failed to decentralize. If we are to kill the dinosaurs, we need many smaller meteorites and some gas to choke them. Removing the basis for the dissemination of advertising (aka. unsolicited messages) would prevent the virus from reproducing. This has been tried and failed with Usenet and email (but primarily because Gaggle embraced and extinguished both). I think the Spritely project has some aces in its game. Anyway, rest assured that corporations are already planning a coup. May they fail miserably. May free willing cooperation prevail. == hk
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