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[–] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I feel like the internet is reliving in a 30 year span what retail went through over a whole century. General stores and small specialized shops serving a limited number of clients, same as when you could put on a website to sell to the world the birdhouses you made as a hobby. Then came shopping malls and Walmarts and everybody went oh my god this is so cool, everything in one place. The same enthusiasm we felt over Facebook, Google, amazon. And now, seeing how the big players all sell cheap stuff, control the market and kill all competition, we look back at a time when there were more options, more freedom, and choose to use Lemmy instead of Reddit, and buy our coffee at the local roaster rather than Starbucks.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's both very much caused by capitalism so not a big surprise

[–] malcriada_lala@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I was excited to see this article written on the verge but then I read it. Seems like they are only interested in what the fediverse can do now that Threads is getting in and sticking their foot in the door. It's likely they needed Meta as a corporation to validate federation as something with real potential. We need to be highly critical about the entities who just see this as another way to make money off our data

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Vergecast people and @davidpierce@mastodon.social who wrote this piece have been on board with Activity Pub for much longer than Threads has even been a thing.

I do wonder if they know about Lemmy though :)

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 5 points 10 months ago

They did mention Lemmy in the article.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I honestly don’t see how this was your takeaway from the article. That’s not at all what they were saying.

[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

It feels like the fediverse can be the true Web 3.0.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My main concern with this is I don't know how well activity pub can scale, and we've already seen various interop problems between different types of platforms. And if email is any indication, once activitypub gets popular it will NEVER GO AWAY and all the developers will hate it.

[–] tiny_electron@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here is an interesting thread about activitypub's scalability https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/110198847653604631

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's pretty much what I'm talking about, though I wish she was more specific