I really hope this is a complete failure, like Meta itself.

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    My primary beef with

    huge pool of new users for the protocol

    Has to do with the scary-low number of developers working solely on ActivityPub, lemmy, etc - and lack of incentive for more to dive in head first.

    This is NOT ready for prime time, and I worry that reliance on devs from Zuck’s army will facilitate EEE of the protocol. Slow and steady is better.

    Pic related.

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      Exactly. ActivityPub needs continued organic growth, not to be inundated by activity from a giant monolithic, social media company controlled instance who’s heavily financially incentivised to wipe us out.

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      It’s FOSS. Meta is free to spin off their own version of ActivityPub, but we don’t have to join them. The entire point of federalised instances is to allow competition like this. If Lemmy devs are dropping the ball then other developers will compete for a better user experience. Competition rocks and I’m looking forward to it.

      • dismalnow
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        Nah, I’m fully aware of what FOSS is and does - but nothing in this entropic universe is permanent.

        FOSS has gone private before (RedHat, etc) due to profit motive. I’m not sure I could resist several million dollars to keep it that way.