ActivityPub would be trivial for a "big player" to take over.
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ActivityPub would be trivial for a "big player" to take over.
I don't know why people think this isn't true. A completely idealized version of AP that doesn't resemble actual AP?
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Hrefna (DHC)replied to Hrefna (DHC) last edited by [email protected]
IMO: The reason it hasn't happened is because there hasn't been a reason to do it.
The current size of all AP servers, combined (that aren't owned by friggin _meta_), is basically trivial and it's an excessive amount of work and numerous legal headaches to integrate even just with mastodon.
To EEE you first have to embrace it, and there just isn't a reason to do the first E for most companies.
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It also doesn't buy you anything as a company—not because there's no tooling written under "corporation friendly licenses" (as some might assert)— but because there's _no tooling at all_.
So you get very little, you're entering into a fractious landscape already, and it costs a lot. Great.
They could choose to implement in XMPP while they are at it.
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Christine Lemmer-Webberreplied to Hrefna (DHC) last edited by
@hrefna I don't disagree at all since I frequently point to XMPP as an example of this, but wouldn't it be fair to say by this analysis that's what Threads is doing right now (except, I guess, they barely federate)
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These things also aren't features for us and hinderances for corporate development either.
They are hinderances to us as well. We've managed to work around or overlook them in some corners, but that still cause substantive damage to the health of the system here.
This isn't "yay we found the solution to keep corporations out" this is "we've made this place developer-hostile enough that almost no one, including corporations, wants to develop here."
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Hrefna (DHC)replied to Christine Lemmer-Webber last edited by
@cwebber Oh definitely 100% agreed.
That's just an in-flight effort and I'm thinking more "why not before now."
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Threads is actively in the process of that first E right now.
I don't think you even need to assume ill intent—though frankly given that it is meta assuming ill intent is probably wise—that is functionally where this road leads.
