Good comment. Everybody can mine the public data of the fediverse, so you don’t have to own an instance to do so. I think this is an interesting move from Meta. It is a different situation than the times Facebook and Google did embrace, extend and extinguish. Now the userbase of ActivityPub is much bigger than for example XMPP was back when FB&Google supported those. Let’s see how this pans out.
The good thing about this is that we know Meta’s plans. It’s not a secret. It would be worse if, suddenly, a Meta instance appeared right here with its millions of users and we were naked.
We should be prepared by the time Meta comes to the fediverse. But this is not the wild west. First we ask, and afterwards we shoot if necessary.
Good comment. Everybody can mine the public data of the fediverse, so you don’t have to own an instance to do so. I think this is an interesting move from Meta. It is a different situation than the times Facebook and Google did embrace, extend and extinguish. Now the userbase of ActivityPub is much bigger than for example XMPP was back when FB&Google supported those. Let’s see how this pans out.
The good thing about this is that we know Meta’s plans. It’s not a secret. It would be worse if, suddenly, a Meta instance appeared right here with its millions of users and we were naked.
We should be prepared by the time Meta comes to the fediverse. But this is not the wild west. First we ask, and afterwards we shoot if necessary.