Gregory's Server
I think Twitter adopting ActivityPub would be a good thing and a victory for the web. Twitter's current lock-in on its users is its strength, and weaking that lock-in by embracing decentralization would remove essentially all network effects-based obstacles to people moving away from it and spreading out in the fediverse.
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Yes, except if I were jack, what I would do is figure out what would give me control over every use of activitypub, figure out what changes were needed to the standard, make those changes, instead, in the interest of some innocent reason I can sell to the rubes, then after everyone is using 'my' standard, make the real changes, and make everyone's continued use dependent on what I can control. Isn't that SOP for these companies? @Gargron Quite possibly, which is why I am sure Twitter will roll their own. Or just quietly drop the idea after a while. |
It would make non-Twitter social media providers like Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed and others more competetive, since they offer a better experience not motivated by corporate interests and can explore more sustainable and ethical business models. Twitter adopting ActivityPub would also be incredible validation of everything we've been working towards and lead to more platforms joining the decentralized social web and more exciting and innovative projects being created in this space.