Christopher Lemmer Webber
@alcinnz @datatitian I would *love* for Facebook and Twitter to adopt ActivityPub, but it seems they really *want* to have walled gardens, so it's hard for me to be optimistic there.
I think Google or Microsoft (!!) would be more likely to participate in ActivityPub stuff at this point, because they're more nervous about not having really a big inroads in the social networking scene these days afaict, and maybe AP could help them
Aral Balkan
@cwebber @alcinnz @datatitian Unless Facebook, Twitter, and Google change their core business models, their adoption of ActivityPub would be for one of two purposes: either (a) embrace and extend (with proprietary extensions. e.g., Google: AOSP and Google Play Services) or (b) PR.
What excites me about ActivityPub is the potential it holds for independent alternatives to Google, Facebook, and Twitter to emerge with completely different business models (including, eg., commons-funded & coop).
Aral Balkan
@cwebber @alcinnz @datatitian PS. Thank you thank you thank you for ActivityPub :) cc @Gargron
Will Murphy 🌹
@aral @cwebber @alcinnz I didn't mean that the burbs and the books might actually do it - it's diametrically opposed to their interests and business model. I just meant that, now that it is a recommended standard, the framing of the discussion changes from "they won't forget ahead" to "they are stuck in the past pushing broken websites that don't implement modern standards"
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