• Helix@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    We have the power over ActivityPub

    Who is ‘we’? And who doesn’t say that there’s something on top of activitypub?

    Plus, if they do create cool features, why would we not also add them?

    Because we don’t have multiple thousands of paid developers.

    • Scott@lem.free.as
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      1 year ago

      One of the “powers” of OSS is that the license usually required changes to be fed back upstream.

      If Meta were not to do that the authors of Lemmy could ask someone like EFF to take legal proceeding against them.

    • sznio@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Because we don’t have multiple thousands of paid developers.

      Having worked at a company with thousands of developers, that’s a significant advantage for us.