Wait and see is not ignoring anything though, and have not read a single argument against it. Defederation can happen at any time for any reason in the future, why would you preemptively exclude a potential for ActivityPub to get major recognition?

I'm not excluding the possibility an EEE attempt, and meta's track record definitely shows they will try. But people using ActivityPub right now won't stop because a company forked it into their own standard, we are here specifically for the exact opposite. Meta literally has zero influence on any of us, if anything it's the exact opposite.

Also "learning from history" is a weak argument, every server admin as the possibility to defederate at any moment. When even the slightest misstep is placed, everyone defederates and Meta will live in their own little federated world, boo fucking hoo.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What is EEE? Google insists it's either an expression or glee, or Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, is a strategy tech companies (and a lot more outside of tech as well) have used to use existing open standard and over time slowly add, adapt and finally take over those standards.

It's a genuine concern this might happen to ActivityPub and Lemmy by extension by Meta, who is integrating ActivityPub as we speak.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thanks for the explanation. I can see how this could be a concern, especially with the historical actions of every tech giant, Facebook included

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