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Les Orchard

"The whole point of ActivityPub as an open protocol is to turn Twitter/Instagram-like social networking into something more akin to email: truly open."

The point of an open protocol is to help folks build what they want to build. Not an obligation to welcome everyone into their house.

If I have a full beer keg and you have a tap that fits it, that doesn't necessarily mean you're invited to my barbecue.

19 Jun 2023 at 23:19 | Open on hackers.town
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Christopher Wood

@lmorchard Point of order, open like email where the small players have deliverability issues to the big providers and the anti-spam arms war spirals up (in price) with every year?

19 Jun 2023 at 23:29 | Open on octodon.social
Chris [list of emoji]

@lmorchard

"Sure, they've gotten drunk and trashed the place at every single party they've been invited to in living memory, but that doesn't mean they'll do it at *ours*."

19 Jun 2023 at 23:32 | Open on freeradical.zone
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@lmorchard if I set up an email server, spam blocking all of facebook’s servers would be the first thing I do there too.

20 Jun 2023 at 0:29 | Open on merveilles.town
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