Re: Meta and ActivityPub

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.

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hk

Received on Sunday, 12 March 2023 18:40:49 UTC