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“Axis of evil” was a GWB and Cheney thing. I don’t think Obama ever used the term.

It's taken me decades to figure this out

Just need to say it was “bull caca” like a polite word for BS.

I mean development. It's happened with other projects before when large corps get involved. Of course, the existing developers of a project don't have to allow that to happen.

Yeah, but open source it.

Throw 50 fulltime programmers at development and crowd everyone else out. Or fork it with something clearly superior since they can afford to pay people to work on it fulltime.

Please. Per wikipedia

Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates

Okay, 19 1/2 years. Hope that's more pleasing to you.

ActivityPub wasn't built with exclusion in mind.

So what? People can run kbin or Lemmy as a standalone forum not connected to anything, if they want. People are free to use the software however they see fit. Wouldn't exactly be the first time people choose to use software in some other way then the authors intended.

If you don't like decisions somebody else makes for you, then run your own instance.

This isn't meant to be snarky, btw, it's a valid solution and one of the freedoms of the fediverse system.

I’m sure there will be instances that remain federated with them, and you can join those… or just join Threadstagram.

I’m pretty clear that meta has more problems than “vibes”.