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1. Thomas Willingham (beardyunixer@soc.beardyunixer.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2017 07:43:59 EDT Thomas Willingham
   It's been vaguely interesting to watch the whole ActivityPub thing. It's not about protocols, it's about control. I think most people have realised that by now, and indeed, the rhetoric from all the players has shifted in this direction over the last few weeks too.
   
   Alliances are being formed not based on freedom, but based on who we want to have in control.
   
   The manifestos range from "Give me control so we can make a safe space" to the more sinister "If you give me control, I'll give you some of it back". Nobody has yet stood on a platform of "Uh, wasn't this whole thing about letting individuals have control over their own everything?". It's sad that none of the players have stood on this platform.
   
   It's even sadder that nobody seems concerned.
   1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2017 07:50:37 EDT Bob Mottram

      in reply to
      @beardyunixer I doubt that ActivityPub with further centralize control over the fediverse. It might result in splits if the gnusocialverse can't speak ActivityPub.
   2. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2017 11:52:45 EDT Michael Vogel

      in reply to
      @James Lamentus the Diaspora protocol is easy to implement, expandable and is now finally documented well: http://diaspora.github.io/diaspora_federation/index.html
      
      It is a very lightweight protocol without redundancy - in difference to DFRN.