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Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's the same problem as with Chrome. If internet for most people goes through Google Chrome (which it currently does: Android, smart devices, Electron Apps, Android apps, Edge, Brave, etc.) then the controlling entity can redefine the meaning of that protocol. In the above example it would be Google redefining the meaning of the web, see DRM, manifest v3, and similar efforts. Small players wouldn't be able to play catch-up or disagree (it wouldn't matter) and risk bring irrelevant.

The admins of defederating instances fear the same could happen to ActivityPub and fediverse.