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When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon".

But on July 14, @alexeheath of the Verge reported that Meta's saying ActivityPub integration's "a long way out". Hey wait a second. Make up your mind already!

From the perspective of the "free fediverse" that's not welcoming Meta, the new positioning that ActivityPub integration is "a long way out" is encouraging. OK, it's not as good as "when hell freezes over," but it's a heckuva lot better than "soon." In fact, I'd go so far as to say "a long way out" is a clear victory for the free fediverse's cause.

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[–] nekat_emanresu@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I'll stop fighting when Meta no longer exists.

[–] outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

I’ll stop when capitalism and governments no longer exist.

(By government, I mean the institution of a group of rulers and attendant enforcement, used to compel others to do what they would otherwise not).

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Governments will always exist. Sorry to burst that bubble. They always have and they always will.

[–] featured@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Lmao you think there were governments when early humans were wandering around the plains of Africa in tiny little tribes?

E: Downvote all you want but by the definitions being proposed here then all species have governments because they snatch food from one another, which is an immensely asinine description of 'government' since it describes and means effectively NOTHING

[–] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Tribalism is a form of government hate to break it to you...

[–] Kalkaline@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as there is a limited supply of resources there will be some form of economic distribution and a government to settle disputes about that distribution.

[–] nekat_emanresu@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

If you argue that any attempt to resolve an economic dispute(that apple is mine!) is through government, then yes, they will exist as long as we do.

[–] outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the fatalism is sad.

People lack both the knowledge to realize that different forms of society already existed (and do, currently), and imagination to realize that it’s possible to move towards a different and better form.

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