Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?
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​ There has been a lot of chatter about the decision of some instances on Mastodon to pre-emptively block Meta’s purported new ActivityPub-compatible service: Dare Obasanjo: It’s a weird own …

Ian Betteridge (of the “Betteridge’s Law of Headlines”) opines on the recent Meta (Facebook) / Fediverse controversy.

  • Jeff@social.rights.ninja
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    1 年前

    @PriorProject @PorkrollPosadist

    All the examples you provided were infrastructure, not social communities, so I think it’s a poor comparison.

    Instead, I’d compare AP federation to _social_ constructs. Communities, clubs, groups of friends. Even larger constructs like cities or nation states.

    In _those_ examples it’s clear that limiting association is commonplace and healthy.