Gregory's Server
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.
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@Gargron really glad to hear your thoughts on this, and relieved to know that you're optimistic. I think we're all a little scared that twitter could ruin the good things that we've built, but as long as this part of the fediverse remains committed to the principles of decentralization, we'll be okay. @Gargron I really doubt it. At the end of the day, users want simplicity. ActivityPub is too complicated for most people to understand. Hell, it took me some googling to figure out how to use mastodon! The average user doesn't put in so much effort. Facebook, twitter, tiktok succeeded because they are very simple to use. It will be hard for a decentralised network to provide ease of use. |
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"Twitter adopting ActivityPub would also be incredible validation of everything we've been working towards "...
Used exactly this argument to someone who was mocking the move of some of us to Mastodon.