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Stephen Downes

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Threads could have adopted a different federation propocol "such as Tim Berners-Lee's Solid and Bluesky's AT Protocol," writes Richard MacManus. But ActivityPub, which is used by Mastodon and more, "perfectly suits Meta's goals." Why? "With ActivityPub, the server manages your identity and data... As fediverse developer Ryan Barrett put it in a post this week, your ActivityPub "identity, data, and administration are all tied to your instance, for both technical and cultural reasons." Hmm. This is not a problem if each person have their own ActivityPub server. But how many people is that?

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