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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They replace AP with something else internally and abandon AP. If anyone wants to keep talking to them, they've got to hop onboard whatever they've replaced AP with. This effectively kills AP (theoretically).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would it kill AP if there is a set of users that don't care about those features but just their privacy?

Just don't use Meta's app or switch. I just don't understand personally how this removed every other server instance using AP out of the equation if FB would just be closing themselves off even if they did build something better or useful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need to remember that ActivityPub and this entire fediverse is only to allow small, individual communities to live without a major corporation able to pull the plug. It's not privacy centric at all. In fact, quite far from it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand that either? I thought the Fediverse was privacy first driven? I don't really understand how it couldn't be when you can wall off Threads if you choose to do so?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

AP is just a networking protocol for communication between several servers. You should assume everything you to is 1000% public and easily gathered by everyone that wants to