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Should programming.dev defederate from Meta if they implement ActivityPub? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by starman@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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I'm not suggesting anything, just want to know what do you think.

Here is a link if someone don't know what Meta's Threads is: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

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[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago

Here are some good articles and responses I've seen on this topic:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open
- counter argument
https://wedistribute.org/2023/06/john-gruber-no-understand/
- rebuttals to counter
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
- historic precedent and prevailing trends with open protocols

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Looks like the author of the last article above posted a follow up yesterday:

https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.html
- argument for local communities and against universal social networks

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

And so it begins. Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook:

Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta
- https://lemmy.ml/post/1818412

this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023

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