

It’s not that we don’t believe in it. It’s that we literally went through this already. And now we expect meta to be more magnanimous than google?
Fool me once and all that. I was with you at one point but after Reddit’s bullshit this past summer the glass broke for me. I don’t need 1 billion people here. I’m perfectly content with a small corner of the internet. No control necessary.
No. What they will do is follow the activity pub protocol, then make their own tweaks that all the other instances are supposed to follow (despite being closed off tweaks), or we are no longer interacting with them. Eventually our open source standard is overshadowed by their new partially proprietary standard, they have 95% of the users and more functionality so they have no reason to leave, and we are the ones who are doing it wrong. Then we are extinguished and they begin the process of enshitification/extracting every cent possible.
i.e. embrace, extend, extinguish.