Helix@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoMeta's decentralized social plans confirmed. Is Embrace-Extend-Extinguish of the Fediverse next?reb00ted.orgexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-squareSojourn 🐢@mastodon.coffeelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year ago@emi @Helix those standards don’t really change though. We have the power over ActivityPub. Plus, if they do create cool features, why would we not also add them?
minus-squareHelix@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year ago We have the power over ActivityPub Who is ‘we’? And who doesn’t say that there’s something on top of activitypub? Plus, if they do create cool features, why would we not also add them? Because we don’t have multiple thousands of paid developers.
minus-squareSojourn 🐢@mastodon.coffeelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year ago@Helix we have a legion of trans coders in pink striped programmer socks. They can do anything!
minus-squarechrisn@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIf there are some big players (like in email), i think the biggest risk is that the big players would end up only talking to each other. Similar to email, where a random host is likely to be spamming, that might happen here too. (Although I’m not that familiar with the protocols here)
@emi @Helix those standards don’t really change though. We have the power over ActivityPub. Plus, if they do create cool features, why would we not also add them?
Who is ‘we’? And who doesn’t say that there’s something on top of activitypub?
Because we don’t have multiple thousands of paid developers.
@Helix we have a legion of trans coders in pink striped programmer socks. They can do anything!
If there are some big players (like in email), i think the biggest risk is that the big players would end up only talking to each other.
Similar to email, where a random host is likely to be spamming, that might happen here too. (Although I’m not that familiar with the protocols here)