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Their cost benefit analysis seems short-sighted. Having a chip wouldn’t be too expensive as even a Nest Mini has it. Just increase the price by $25 but provide that functionality imo.
How to find the available bots and their instructions on the botsin.space?
No, won’t sign up on that privacy nightmare. Though, once it does support ActivityPub, I’ll probably follow people who are not on Mastodon yet.
For those unfamiliar with Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
It seems likely that some instances will federate and others will not. I think eventually, many people who hate Meta might move to the instances that federated with Meta, just so that they can find people on their social graph.
I’m afraid, that’s when silo of the defederated instances will become echo chambers, especially if they do second order blocking as some have threatened to do with mastodon.social
Yes, I agree that we can’t let them dictate the pace. Let me try to express my thoughts more clearly. Couldn’t we have something like The Linux Foundation for Fediverse? It has many corporate members including Google, Microsoft.
Some corporations can be partners to a ActivityPub foundation and contribute to the codebase of the protocol. The foundation itself needs to be independent to steer the features and technical direction according to the Fediverse principles.
As you said just because this is mostly run by volunteers, it need not be an inferior product. But some thought on what I said above might make it something that is adopted by the general populace as well.
Is the instance admin able to view posts/messages of private accounts like they can do on Lemmy?
