If you had told me as recently as two years ago that Meta was going to create a microblogging platform, I would have scoffed. If you had told me that same network would federate over ActivityPub, I would've laughed in your face. But here we are. It's happening. We're no longer at a point wher

The Fediverse is currently divided over whether or not to block Threads. Here are some of the things people are worried about, some opportunities that might come from it, and what we need to do to prepare.

  • Sean TilleyOPMEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Thank you for your response, I appreciate your insights!

    I think if there were really serious problems with a future version of ActivityPub, we could feasibly do one of two things:

    1. Maintain a fork of the protocol - this has actually already happened once, with an implementation standard called Litepub.
    2. Move over to a different protocol, such as Zot.

    The second route is probably much harder, but there’s no real reason why a zombified Meta version of the protocol would do much of anything to anybody running vanilla ActivityPub at this time. You’d probably have some feature incompatibilities and breakage, but…if you’re not going to federate with them anyway, what can they actually do?