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 @J12t Another possibility: Meta has good business reasons for doing a decentralized network (which I think is clearly the case), and ActivityPub is one of the best-known decentralized protocols , so it's a good PR/marketing approach to say they're starting there. Either they make it work with proprietary extensions, or they say "we tried it but it didn't work out, and our approach is better because ..." 4 comments
@J12t see @darnell.moe's points here and the ensuing discussion for several good reasons  @jdp23 Hmm. I don't think I understand what he means with "decentralized". Meta in the business of shipping installable server-side software, golden master, patch releases, that kind of thing? Obviously I don't know, nobody does, but I would consider this to be supremely unlikely. Offering an API for 3rd-party software that their biz customers and large-scale influencers can use? Sure. But that's hardly decentralized and hardly new. Using AP as part of that API? Yes for my reasons 2 and 3. @J12t "Decentralized" doesn't necessarily mean "everybody can install it and run it themselves." I can certainly see them offering something that orgs with IT staffs can host on their own for their communities. For individuals, I can see them partnering with approved hosting vendors -- in fact one way to think about their outreach to instance admins is as an experiment, a proof point if it succeeds or something that can be easily discarded and blamed on others if it doesn't. |
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@jdp23 I'm not seeing the "good business reasons for doing a decentralized network" for Meta?