• stoiclime@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The entire point of ActivityPub is that it’s open and EEE-proof. If the users leave it for something proprietary but better, then it isn’t EEE, it’s just a better product.

    Simply being open source is not an achievement in itself. The platform has to be user friendly, stable and future-proof. Most FOSS and federated alternatives create a platform and then endlessly harp on federation like that’s the end. No, that’s the beginning. The point is to make a product better than Big Tech WHILE maintaining federation and Foss status. THAT is what makes a platform EEE proof.

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      1 year ago

      If the users leave it for something proprietary but better, then it isn’t EEE, it’s just a better product.

      That’s literally the second E, extend.

      Nothing is EEE-proof. If Meta puts even just 10 billion dollars into developing and marketing their fediverse EEE project, it’s going to be better for the average user (I.e: billions of people already using Meta’s services) than what a couple of FOSS devs made for free in their spare time.

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        1 year ago

        That’s not what extend means in this context. In this context, extend means to add non-standard features to the protocol which only your implementation understands.