Yes, people are panicking because Meta is coming for us. They’re taking two opportunities with one strike:
At the end of the day, more people in the fediverse is a win in my book. And if it becomes a problem there’s always defederation as a last resort.
Will people come?
To piggyback on that Linux analogy: if ActivityPub becomes as essential of a backbone to the internet as we know it as Linux servers are then the transformation has happened IMO.
Karma can be played and it has been extensively on Reddit. Best not to repeat that mistake!
Oh, yes, totally forgot about windows93! 😃
Truly insane
Not just a web app but a PWA which is much closer to a native app than a web app usually is.
I’m kind of an agnostic, so naturally my point of view is: it’s hard if not impossible to tell.
I don’t really believe in a soul but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was such a thing. Maybe we’re all going back home after we die, maybe we just stop existing. Maybe it’s both. It’s hard to tell.
Set up the server myself. For me, that’s part of the fediverse experience.
Yes, there’s a real chance here for the people to take back the internet. Pretty amazing.
And how will this extinguish the fediverse? We'll still all be here, won't we?