@J12t And DSA compliance does make sense. I'd forgotten about that:
"The European Union is coming down hard on Meta, demanding all sorts of interoperability as part of its Digital Services Act. By implementing a bona-fide W3C interoperability standard as part of a new app, Meta can signal both cooperation with the EU authorities, while delaying opening its core business as long as possible."
@J12t A good post as always -- DSA compliance makes a lot of sense. Along similar lines, from a privacy perspective, Meta could potentially avoid legal liability by acting as a service provider to the instances they're federating with. Most US laws only apply to entities above a certain threshold, so it's possible that many medium-size instances could be essentially unregulated (not sure how this works under GDPR). 1/2
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