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You could and should do this with Write Freely or similar today. I don't think a company’s desire to close off its ‘product’, host ads, and require sign-ins ali
by toastal 4y ago
You could and should do this with Write Freely or similar today. I don't think a company’s desire to close off its ‘product’, host ads, and require sign-ins align with that the Fediverse wants to do. This isn’t like a co-op where funds are spent just to cover maintenance and server fees.
- kragen 4y agoThat's why I was so surprised to see the headline! I'm not used to seeing Medium respect other people. But it is what Tumblr plans to do, apparently.
- saurik 4y agoActivityPub is a protocol. It can try to define itself as a community all it wants, but at the end of the day it is as much of a community as SMTP is a community. If a for-profit company wants to send e-mail notifications to its users about blog posts--and even if it also wants to embed really horrible advertisements--it should not only get to send e-mail, it should be encouraged to send e-mail instead of only using proprietary centralized replacements for e-mail (such as mobile push notifications).