• MudMan@kbin.social
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    So hold on, is this an open source space, a protocol or “like email”? Which of the poor analogies people use to convey excitiement about AcitivityPub are supposed to apply here?

    Because, you know, Google got into the Linux space, into email and into open source software and it seems those survived the experience.

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      Yeah but these examples are all bigger than Google. The fediverse irrelevant in comparison. Additionally at least Linux doesn’t have such a strong network effect, since it’s not a social network. I mean I’m going to let myself be surprised. But I kinda doubt that anything good will come from it.

      The Meta business side isn’t nice folks that try to do good in general.

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      Google got into the Linux space, into email and into open source software and it seems those survived the experience.

      Try to start up your own independent email server instead of going with one of the largest providers. You will never be able to message anyone on Gmail.

      • Very much not true. All I’ve really had to do was create an SPF entry in my DNS and setup DKIM. Once that was done, it was okay.

        The guys I regularly exchange email with have had no issues getting mail from my server.