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Thank you! This is all new to me, so I don't know how it works. However, this does resolve my concern about 'instances'. It makes me excited and hopeful then

• dragontamer 8y ago
  > However, this does resolve my concern about 'instances'. On a surface level, it should. But given what I've seen over the past 15 years, no... it shouldn't resolve those concerns. Consider if Google / Youtube became PeerTube compatible with ActivityPub next year. But then, there are additional features that only exist on Youtube's implementation (spam monitoring, Twitter integration, Youtube integration, etc. etc.). Something that makes people prefer Youtube over other hosts. Eventually, Youtube can cut out ActivityPub, after it captures the ActivityPub marketplace. See XMPP and Google Hangouts if you want a historical example. Embrace, Extend, extinguish is the name of the technique, and it is quite effective at killing open standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... ---------- So the general community does need to be aware of it, lest another XMPP-extinguish effect comes around from the big players.