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Bernie Sanders: Yes, this is oligarchy.
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Who owns ActivityPub? No one.
Me. It's mine
an oligarch! GET'EM!
You own it too, motherfucker!
Ah the ol' lemmy switcheroo.
grab my self hosted server, I'm going in!
...
(...someone give me another instance of this joke to link to.)
ah shit
*runs away*
Get them too then!
Not trying to be that guy, but ActivityPub is technically owned by the W3C. I agree with the sentiment of your post regarding the free nature of AP.
The specification yes. But can they silence voices they don't like, and amplify those they do? No? Then no problem.
They don't have to if the transmission lines are owned by frontier/Verizon/comcast
I'm not sure I believe that any more than I believe any of those ridiculous techbros owned those ugly apes
AP is just a protocol. Like HTTP. The IETF owns the HTTP protocol. Anyone is free to implement it, but they decide what HTTP is and how it evolves over time.
I don't believe many people implementing AP listen to W3C. W3C can say they own it, but I want to see practical evidence, not just a flag.
By that definition no one owns any open standard. Either way this was an academic argument to start with, so it's not worth belaboring.
You're right! This just reeks of Big ActivityPub propaganda!
Seems like there are an awful lot of tankies here though
Sure but watch this
Tankies suck! Stalin was a monster. China is an undemocratic oligarchy. Luigi Mangione should go shoot Kim Jong Un.
See? That's why the fediverse is better.
You're lucky you're not in the wrong instance!
Yes that’s cool! But if we were in a community ruled by people who were to disagree with what you wrote you would be banned and censored the same. And some communities are too large and well in place for their userbase to be moved.
But they can't ban you from entire fediverse and that is the point.
If not tankies, then who rules this community? I'll put it to the test. My guess is that they'll only ban me if I say something truly horrible, not merely "people who disagree".
Enshittification is all about next quarter, not reliable income. Eventually it gets so shitty that the users move.
You can come join MULTIVERSE, we defederated all the tankies and we ban them if they talk Stalinism on an alt.
And what do you do for nazis?
Defed and ban