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A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon".

But on July 14, @alexeheath of the Verge reported that Meta's saying ActivityPub integration's "a long way out". Hey wait a second. Make up your mind already!

From the perspective of the "free fediverse" that's not welcoming Meta, the new positioning that ActivityPub integration is "a long way out" is encouraging. OK, it's not as good as "when hell freezes over," but it's a heckuva lot better than "soon." In fact, I'd go so far as to say "a long way out" is a clear victory for the free fediverse's cause.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine of the EU mandated all social networks to be interoperable..

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Like "standard phone calls have always been interoperable" ?

Like "batteries should be replaceable" ?

Or "documents file formats should be open" ?

ActivityPub should probably become a login standard, somehow as standard as SAML. Any social network should propose to login with AP, just like any social let you use email or phone number to register.

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

Yes all of those. I think Cory Doctorow calls it crecom or something like that