Gregory's Server@jens Big players like Meta, Google, Tencent, ByteDance, etc. would only stop posing a danger to the Fediverse when permanent interoperability is guaranteed, e.g. through a legal framework. If a law required social networks to support ActivityPub, they could embrace and extend, but not extinguish.
This conversation reminds me of the âfacebook requiemâ which calls to expropriate Facebook. Both would both lead to a better world, I'd wager. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN3tCHUQsz8
@WhiskyPenguin Well, the Digital Markets Act in the EU may require this. It depends a little on how you define "messaging". Is this messaging, what we're doing now?
Lawmakers won't require the use of any particular protocol, however. That's also a wise decision, because the law will not be able to keep up with technological advances.
But the large players could use AP to "prove" that they are interoperable, in principle.