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The Waveform explains the Fediverse and the protocol war (www.youtube.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Even though I'm on here, I honestly lurk most of the time and don't fully understand the activitypub vs at protocol war. This was a great explainer that will reach a lot of people. Really appreciate a lot of David's takes. I hope David and others at MKBHD become aware of and talk about Lemmy soon too.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

mostly focused on Threads and thinking about the fediverse as an extension/ only making it because of Threads

Threads is the largest gateway into the Fediverse, by an enormous margin, so that is completely unsurprising. If it hadn't been for Threads, these people probably wouldn't even know what the fediverse was.

What I saw was some tech adjacent content creators with one big name creator as anchor effectively discussing how to colonize the fediverse.

What statements did you hear that alluded to anything remotely resembling "colonizing the fediverse"?

They discuss the "social graph" very early on in this episode. This is a huge part of what makes any social network useable, and the most basic reason anyone joins. Threads grows the "social graph" by an enormous margin, and if you don't want to, you can very easily choose not to participate.

Yes, Meta is full of bad actors, but they have no power here. AP was specifically designed with that intention.