The thing where Tumblr and maybe Flickr are embracing ActivityPub is just so interesting to me
For years now the single biggest challenge in launching new social software has been bootstrapping new social graphs for your users
Around 2010 the answer was to use FB and Twitter APIs, but those have got more restricted over time and don't really feel like a safe bet to build on in 2022
Having smaller (but still huge!) networks embrace an open standard feels like a HUGE leap forward
@simon It's very much a double-edged sword. There was similar euphoria over Google deciding to use XMPP for Google Talk, and then it ended up breaking the network...
I'd be skeptical of any for-profit organization wanting to federate only *after* other people have already done the hard work of building up an ecosystem and userbase.
