>Every new service and platform that contains social features — which is most of them — will support the ActivityPub protocol within the next few years. Service

>Every new service and platform that contains social features — which is most of them — will support the ActivityPub protocol within the next few years. Service owners can use it to easily avoid the “cold start” problem when creating new networks, and to plug their existing platforms into a ready-made network of hundreds of millions of people. Publishers will use it to reach their audiences more easily. And it’s where the global conversation will be held. This is spoken like someone with technical vision, not product vision. Content owners don't want these networks shared. The data inherent - who follows who, what the pause over when scrolling, etc. - is where the value is and companies don't want to give that up. I've worked in app platforms before, specifically trying to build this kind of "follow the entities you want across platforms, your network is unified" solution, and the companies do not want this and will not play ball. The users don't care about this - at least nowhere near as much as they care about being on the apps where their friends or the content they want to create is.