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by poisonborz 1072 days ago
"We plan to support ActivityPub"

"They want to kill ActivityPub!"
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Tijdreiziger 1072 days ago
Well, we've seen this playbook before with XMPP.
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poisonborz 1072 days ago
If a protocol is killed because a single megacorp starts to use it and then drops it, then who's at fault? XMPP was just a hard to use, outdated protocol.
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Tijdreiziger 1072 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
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