Some Mastodon admins pledge to block connecting their servers to Meta's Twitter-like clone Threads, which is preparing to adopt the ActivityPub protocol.
Meta will only try what other corporations have done before in similar cases; the strategy is called “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” and it’s the reason why no one who values a free internet should federate with them. A detailed explanation here:
I have been using FOSS since forever and this is always the fear whenever any big company is involved in any way. Sometimes I completely agree. With activitypub I just don’t see how it would realistically play out. Sometimes big companies adopting to open standards can be a good thing.
Meta will only try what other corporations have done before in similar cases; the strategy is called “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” and it’s the reason why no one who values a free internet should federate with them. A detailed explanation here:
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
I have been using FOSS since forever and this is always the fear whenever any big company is involved in any way. Sometimes I completely agree. With activitypub I just don’t see how it would realistically play out. Sometimes big companies adopting to open standards can be a good thing.
Reasonable people disagree of course.