I was facing issues with lemmy.world too, now seems to be okay

I wasn’t aware of PGP, thanks for that info!

The article was a nice read. I’m surprised that there is either no awareness or discussion in the privacy conscious tech crowd over here on the lack of privacy from anonymous bad actors. Everyone seems to only care about Meta, who are bad, but the most they will do with our data is advertise to us. The other bad actors enabled by ActivityPub can actually doxx, redistribute, save our posts, messages.

Yes, I agree that we can’t let them dictate the pace. Let me try to express my thoughts more clearly. Couldn’t we have something like The Linux Foundation for Fediverse? It has many corporate members including Google, Microsoft.

Some corporations can be partners to a ActivityPub foundation and contribute to the codebase of the protocol. The foundation itself needs to be independent to steer the features and technical direction according to the Fediverse principles.

As you said just because this is mostly run by volunteers, it need not be an inferior product. But some thought on what I said above might make it something that is adopted by the general populace as well.

It seems likely that some instances will federate and others will not. I think eventually, many people who hate Meta might move to the instances that federated with Meta, just so that they can find people on their social graph.

I’m afraid, that’s when silo of the defederated instances will become echo chambers, especially if they do second order blocking as some have threatened to do with mastodon.social

They can already do it by running a simple web scraper or running an anonymous instance that federates with everyone in disguise

For those unfamiliar with Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish