I believe you. On the flip side, ActivityPub will never be a successful protocol without big players. If those players aren't pre-established names like Meta or

I believe you. On the flip side, ActivityPub will never be a successful protocol without big players. If those players aren't pre-established names like Meta or Tumblr, then you're relying on an unrealistic number of third parties to manage and host content. Bigger instances are a part of that, and dealing with their consequences is practically inevitable. In the worst-possible scenario I can imagine, Meta breaks compatibility with ActivityPub and forks it into MetaPub, using their userbase as the incentive for other instances to switch. In that case, I'd imagine most instances would happily defederate from them and let Meta run whatever funky app they desire. It's really not an endgame scenario for most users. > I guess it's possible that decentralization eats the world and Facebook fades into irrelevance Sure. It's also possible decentralization eats the world and Facebook is the only one prepared for it.