How will we keep Meta out of the fediverse?

ThinlySlicedGlizzy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 174 points –

Is there any hope? Or is it inevitable that big corporations will take over what started as a way to escape big corporate platforms and to focus on real communities and discussions and replace it with a toxic shithole pumped full of ads?

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But what if they strike a deal with activitypub? From my knowledge they’re the backend of the entire fediverse.

ActivityPub is not a company or entity that can strike deals

Good to know. Not the most knowledgeable with tech.

You can think of it like HTTPS. It's just rules for computers to talk to each other. If your computer follows those rules, it can talk to the other computers that adhere to those rules. These rules are necessary because otherwise the internet is just a bunch of 1s and 0s, you need rules to tell computers which 1s and 0s to send, and rules to tell computers what those 1s and 0s mean.

The World Wide Web Consortium are developing this set of rules, just as they've developed many other rules. They're a non-profit organisation just kinda trying to make the web a better place.