I picked all three of my names, the first was by looking at common names from the year I was born, I just browsed baby name books until I found one that I liked. The second is the name of one of my favorite book characters. The third is a derivation of words out of a conlang that means something special to me and sounds vaguely “foreign” to anyone else.
I don’t have a problem with admins having discussions with Meta. I have a problem with those discussions being off the record or under NDA. We thrive on transparency. The secrecy is the problem.
They aren’t going closed source though? Just not providing source to everyone. But everyone who gets binaries from them still gets access to the source code. Unless I’m missing something?
They don’t have to modify Activity Pub directly to cause chaos. The likely order of events that everyone is worried about it the 3E’s.
From wikipedia’s entry:
No. Meta is a known bad actor. They have a history of not being good for protocols and communities. They are already guilty. Just not here yet. Preemptive banning is appropriate. There is no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.
After they roll out their project, then it can be assessed to see how much harm, if any, it will bring. At that point let them in or not, as evidence dictates. It is entirely possible that they will be a good fedi citizen, if the reason for doing this isn’t profit. And that is actually possible in this case. Because having some services that use Activity Pub is a way to get get certain regulators off their backs. I wouldn’t hold my breath, but it is possible.
Love what I’ve played so far. Struggling on the increased difficulties, still struggling to get my first Orange win.