I’m all for it. I think it was the initial vision for the internet and web, and we got sidetracked by growth and commercialization. I do have to wonder if such a move did happen, a sudden shift of mainstream to here (in general, the Activity Pub’s various forms), could it handle it? Fast growth was a huge hit with the Reddit migration(s), and that was “just” Reddit.
I think what will happen is the big name corporate sites will collapse and the amount of online users will drop to just folks that have a use or passionate interest.
Oh for the love of. Just invest in the fucking Activity Pub and similar FOSS Decentralized systems people.
They went for the protocol used by Bluesky. But apparently disabling federation.
Germany has been running official mastodon instances for politicians and government offices for years
I’m all for it. I think it was the initial vision for the internet and web, and we got sidetracked by growth and commercialization. I do have to wonder if such a move did happen, a sudden shift of mainstream to here (in general, the Activity Pub’s various forms), could it handle it? Fast growth was a huge hit with the Reddit migration(s), and that was “just” Reddit.
I think what will happen is the big name corporate sites will collapse and the amount of online users will drop to just folks that have a use or passionate interest.