• Helix@beehaw.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      We have the power over ActivityPub

      Who is ‘we’? And who doesn’t say that there’s something on top of activitypub?

      Plus, if they do create cool features, why would we not also add them?

      Because we don’t have multiple thousands of paid developers.

      • Scott@lem.free.as
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        One of the “powers” of OSS is that the license usually required changes to be fed back upstream.

        If Meta were not to do that the authors of Lemmy could ask someone like EFF to take legal proceeding against them.

      • sznio@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Because we don’t have multiple thousands of paid developers.

        Having worked at a company with thousands of developers, that’s a significant advantage for us.

    • chrisn@beehaw.org
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      If there are some big players (like in email), i think the biggest risk is that the big players would end up only talking to each other.

      Similar to email, where a random host is likely to be spamming, that might happen here too. (Although I’m not that familiar with the protocols here)