> in Micro.blog we had to disable cross-posting to Facebook after they burned us with API changes
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
As soon as Facebook becomes the largest ActivityPub provider in the world, it will effectively own the protocol, and then all the tiny servers will have to conform to however Facebook wants to mangle it for its own purposes, or they'll be cut off. Ultimately, they'll probably be cut off in any case, as soon as Facebook has bootstrapped its own microblogging network and has no use for partners anymore.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
As soon as Facebook becomes the largest ActivityPub provider in the world, it will effectively own the protocol, and then all the tiny servers will have to conform to however Facebook wants to mangle it for its own purposes, or they'll be cut off. Ultimately, they'll probably be cut off in any case, as soon as Facebook has bootstrapped its own microblogging network and has no use for partners anymore.