The @swf claiming the 25-year mantle of the #SocialWeb exclusively for #ActivityPub is a far more brazen sort of quasi-IP transgression than the whole dumb #WordPress / #WPEngine kerfuffle.
What’s great about blogs is you can be a one-person echo chamber and if people want to read you they can and if they don’t want to read they don’t have to and everyone can just go about their lives and opinions.