I think we’re starting to see a breakdown of trust in some of the larger players in the open social web. Many of you didn’t trust Meta from the start about Threads; I gave them the benefit of the doubt, but it’s 100% clear to me now that Meta is not serious about federation. Likewise we see Automattic now backtracking on its promise to federate Tumblr. Perhaps this is all a sign that we need new products and new open source leaders, to add to e.g. Mastodon & Pixelfed. And new business models!
@ricmac Profit hungry corpos will never want open standards that empower people. All they want is to trap attention and feed you ads / mine your data. There's no "new business model" that would be different from that. Small instances federating together is the way to go even if it doesn't 'scale' the way corpo tech does.
