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Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it's not good (www.techradar.com)

submitted 1 year ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

“Don’t be evil” was always going to take second place to “make money”. That reality sucks, but it’s inevitable in a corporate oligarchy.

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

We're not free from it. If the fediverse took off and ISPs somehow ganged up on the activitypub protocol to force it to make money, some larger instances are going to crack, that's what I mean.

[-] jupdown@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I don’t understand - why would ISPs gang up on ActivityPub? How would it force larger instances to “crack”?

Are you saying that they would ramp up costs for utilizing the protocol specifically? Wouldn’t that go against Net Neutrality..?

[-] Gsus4@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I understand, I'm speculating, but from what I've read it happens occasionally if you try to host your own email or chat server: you may get blacklisted. Or they could hypothetically hike the costs of certain server features needed to host your own instance instead of an established one.